...Aged Man. And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns...tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breszes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges...

...above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Canto v. St. 1. Call it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say. that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Canto v. St. 13. True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the...

...of Woodbridge the following poem : — GAINSBOROUGH'S HAUNTS. " Call it not vain I they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; " Nor should we less the memory prize Of him, whose imitative art, Transcripts of nature still supplies,...

...CANTO FIFTH. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns...rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. But that the stream, the wood, the gale, Is vocal with the plaintive wail Of those, who, else forgotten...

...well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO V. 1 CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say that, when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourns...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. 2 Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the wood,...

...And strives to trim the short-lived blaze. CANTO V. 1 CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who saj that, when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. 2 Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the wood,...

...and swell the profound lament. For we are not untruly told to " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mute nature mourns...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave, To murmur dirges round his grave," Mr. President,...

...Night's Dream " ? Or take the opening stanza of the fifth canto : — " Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies, Mute nature mourns...That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in leaves of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply;...

...Call it not vain; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mate nature mourns her worshiper, And celebrates his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff...weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distill; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply; And rivers...

...that hill and forest lone For the departed chief make moan ; Through his loved groves that hreezcs sigh And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave."* * A very prosaic observer, Smyth, in his " Tour in the US of America," — says of the country and...