 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 329 pages
...dark, The purple berries in the wood Supplled me necessary food ; For Nature ever faithful ia 15° To such as trust her faithfulness. When the forest...morning lie, When sea and land refuse to feed me, 'Twffi be time enough to die ; Then will yet my mother yield A pillow in her greenest field, Nor the... | |
 | 1891 - 1252 pages
...steadfast, true in manhood, Showed not where a blow had lain. — Edwin Ralph Collins. NATURE ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness. When the forest...morning lie, When sea and land refuse to feed me, 'Twill be time enough to die. — Emerson. SILENCE AND SONG. SING you, oh poet, your little lays, Though... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, Joseph Henry Allen, James De Normandie - 1891 - 514 pages
...But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." And again : — " When the forest shall mislead me, When the night and...morning lie, When sea and land refuse to feed me, 'Twill be time enough to die ; Then will yet my mother yield A pillow in her greenest field, Nor the... | |
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Unerring to the ocean sand. The moss upon the forest bark Was pole-star when the night was dark; The purple berries in the wood Supplied me necessary food; For Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness. When the forest shall mislead me,... 
