...comest not when violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, O'er columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. ' Thou waitest...cerulean wall. ' I would that thus, when I shall see The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within ray heart, May look to Heaven as I depart.'...

...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.' These lines evince clearly enough that Bryant had a special gift for natural description. The last...

...purple drest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near...Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower frpm its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope...

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...com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds are flown ; And frosts and shortening days portend Tin • aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and...its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall sec The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to Heav'n as I depart."...

...ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitcst late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are Sown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year...quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue— blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. " I would that thus, when I shall see...

...the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night " — " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky." — Bryant. Gentidna sapondria Soap Gentian. A very fine plant, distinguished by its long purple flowers,...

...brooks and springs unseen, /Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.; f Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are...and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall...

...ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and comest alone, When woods are bare and birds are flowii) And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. BRYANT. KELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. IN that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft...

...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall...