| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 страници
...AN OLD MAN'8 REFLECTIONS. • » • • Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes 1 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 страници
...the dear old Man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : " No check, no stay, this streamlet fears : How merrily it goes ! ' Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 442 страници
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 444 страници
...foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the rale this water steers, How merrily it goes, 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1856 - 470 страници
...the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes I 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow, as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chooso but think, How oft a vigorous man I lay Beside this... | |
| 1856 - 252 страници
...THE WATER-BEAKER; OE, THE DRUID'S MOUND. "Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes I 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." FAR away among the Yorkshire wolds, at that period of the year when the winter begins to steal away... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 страници
...old Matthew, but full fifty years later true of himself, No check, 110 stay, this Streamlet fears ; How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 страници
...the dear old Man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : "No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears;* How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 страници
...of old Matthew, but full fifty years later true of himself, No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears; How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 страници
...eyed The spring beneath the tree ; And thus the dear old man replied. The grey-hair" d man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers ; How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. " And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside... | |
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