| 1862 - 712 pages
...down its sloping Bides ' Pours the swift rain drops, bleuding, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Yon stream, whose sources run, Turned by a pebble's...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed. But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1862 - 718 pages
...down its slopir% sides Pours the swift rain drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Yon stream, whose sources run, Turned by a pebble's...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1862 - 716 pages
...its sloping sides Pours the swift rain drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides I Ton stream, whose sources run, Turned by a pebble's edge,...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...the wanderings of the path, We still can see our Father's door I THE TWO STEEAMS. BEHOLD the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides I Yon stream, whose sources ran Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through... | |
| 1867 - 410 pages
...and hesitate whether to flow eastward and mingle with the Mississippi, or westward to the Pacific : Yon stream whose sources run Turned by a pebble's...Athabasca rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| 1868 - 504 pages
...down its sloping aides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river tides. Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with... | |
| Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1878 - 604 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS. Two Streams and Two Lives, OLIVES WENDELL HOLMES, MD Behold the rocky wall That down the sloping sides Pours the swift raindrops, blending...stream whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabea, rolling toward the sun, Through the cleft mountain ledge. The slender rill had strayed, But... | |
| William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pages
...of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. THE TWO STREAMS. BEHOLD the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river- tides ! Yon 'stream, whose sources run Turn'd by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward... | |
| James Wells - 1882 - 310 pages
...of great rivers, where a raindrop's destiny is often decided by a breath of wind. As the poet says " Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's...Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain ledge. " The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean with... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...rusliiug river-tides! You stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolliug se rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up and seizcu...spear. Last came Joy's ecstatic trial : He, with viny c oceau, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon. So from the heights of Will Life's parting stream... | |
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