 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 pages
...oaks in deeper groan reply, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate...the wood, the gale, Is vocal with the plaintive wail Lived in the poet's faithful song, Whose memory feels a second death. The maid's pale shade, who wails... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. п. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn, But that the stream, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 168 pages
...of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn; But that the stream, the... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. MORS POETAE. non fabulas, non somnia inania fingunt, poëtam mors ubi ademerit, plorare Naturam, suique... | |
 | 1893 - 684 pages
...unknown future, what wonder if those solemn lines of a brother bard should have crossed his mind : Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. WILLIAM CONNOR SYDNEY, . : voL CCLXXv. So. 1956. A PROPHET AND HIS PROPHECY. " TF a vacancy," said... | |
 | Calendar - 1893 - 414 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. From The Lay of the Last Minstrel. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1893 - 186 pages
...of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. n. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. SCOTT: The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto K. i. r ' There is a living spirit in the Lyre, A breath... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1895 - 482 pages
...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves the breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." And with a holier fervour, even, are all things animate and inanimate said to feel the birth of a great... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...loved groves that b»eezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, repiy ; And rivers teach their lushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal um Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the wood, the gale, Is vocal with the plaintive... | |
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... the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : — Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved... 
