 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life, to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...in his nest, at even « He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thon what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky;— He sang to my ear,— they sang to... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...round yon Alpine height. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or...home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky: He sang to my ear — they sang to my... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 pages
...Alpine hight ; Nor knowest thou what argument All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or yood alone! I thought the sparrow's note from Heaven, Singing...home, in his nest, at even, He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring him home the river and sky; He sang to my eai — they sang to... | |
 | Mary Potter Thacher Higginson - 1876 - 258 pages
...little strangers remind one of Emerson's captured sparrow : — " He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky...; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." Now most of our native flowers may be easily coaxed back to the woods and groves, and we have many... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1877 - 204 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. A!l are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone....home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 1 brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For 1 did not... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. whom my soul can trust. — Brown. A.MIUTION УЛ-MBITION H — Emerson. 1113. EXAMPLE: of the great. His faults, that in a private station sits, Do mainly harm... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good...in his nest at even ; — He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky ; He sang to my ear ; they sang to my... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alón«. 1 1 thought tlic sparrow's note from heaven. Singing at dawn on the...home, in his nest, at even. He sings the song, but it pleases not now ; For I did not bring home the river and sky: He sang to my ear — they sang to my... | |
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I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. 
