 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 страници
...thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellowed the soil, Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof, dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through. — Time... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 704 страници
...embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through." The... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 страници
...path of a planet. 5. Yellow earth. 6. A Lacedemonian general. XII. AN OLD TREE— WHERE IT GREW. " TIME made thee what thou wast, — king of the woods : And Time has made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the... | |
 | 1879 - 692 страници
...gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellowed the soil Designed thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through. Thou... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 226 страници
...emhryo vastuess at a gnip. itnt Fate thy growth decreed; antnmual raius Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dihhling the glehe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secnre, Thy rndiments shonld sleep the... | |
 | PETER BAYNE - 1871 - 512 страници
...the soil Designed thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through.' Th6 vein of reflection, too, obscured by no mysticism yet touching on deep things, which runs through... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 616 страници
...gulp. But fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent-tree mellowed the soil Designed thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through.' The... | |
 | William Grainge - 1871 - 542 страници
...settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root. — And time has been When tempests could not. Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods, And time has made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in." Clapham Green is another hamlet or district... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 264 страници
...Huntingdon as her dower But Fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through. So fancy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 страници
...gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed ; autumnal rams Beneath thy parent tree mcllow'd the soil Design 'd thy cradle ; and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through. So Fancy... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thine embryo vastness, at a gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed: autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle, and a skipping... 
