 | Henry Noble Day - 1861 - 322 страници
...a sweet Resonance, All their feet In the dance, All the night Twinkled light. Dimeters, Catalectic. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest,...summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. Dimeters, Full and Catalectic. Now the summer 's in prime And the wild mountain thyme All the moorlands... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 страници
...by Malise finds Duncan dead, and the maidens singing the loveliest dirge that ever was composed : " He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest ;" father's dirk and broadsword. Passing Benledi, Malise comes to the Chapel of Saint Bride, whence... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 страници
...village maids and matrons round The dismal coronach * resound. * Funeral Song. Seo Note. Conmstfj. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, From the rain drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, When our need was the sorest. The font,... | |
 | 1862 - 848 страници
...motet, a " coronach " (for women's voices) to Walter Scott's words, from The Lord of the Isles : — " He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer dried fountain. When our need was tile sorest," Ac. with music by Schubert, was felt (though,... | |
 | 1860 - 856 страници
...laborers put their shoulders to bear him once more to his own house, through his half-gathered crops — " The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory." No, bewail him not. It was glory, indeed, but the glory of early autumn, the garnering of the shock... | |
 | 1876 - 862 страници
...ladies gay," the " Pibroch of Donuil Dhu," or " A weary lot is thine, fair miid," — or his coronach, " He is gone on the mountain, he is lost to the forest," or " Where shall the lover rest whom the fates sever ? " So, too, Campbell gives us some sonorous and... | |
 | Royal Society of New Zealand - 1910 - 892 страници
...back." 9. When the quadruple unit makes its appearance in triple metre, as in Scott's stanza, — (14.) He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest. Like a summer dried fountain, . When our need was the sorest. — it is evident that it is caused only by... | |
 | St. Edward's (School : Oxford, England) - 1873 - 270 страници
...Tailor were they." " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infernal old." — Scott. " He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer dried fountain, When our need was the saw-dust." — Scott. " Hard by a flesher on a block Had... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 страници
...digressed, Should fame !s• dumb, Thy very tomb Would cry out, Thou art blessed. CORONACH. HEttRlCK. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest,...summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The fount, re-appearing. From the raindrop shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow!... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1902 - 394 страници
...difficult to till his place, because a useful man, an ornament to society is gone. " He is gone to the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain When our need was the surest." The writer feels how inadequate are words to express his. thoughts and feelings, and lays... | |
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He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes... 
