 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Poet's ear : A simple race ! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Canto iv. Stanza 85. Call it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Canto v. Stanza 1. True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain :— they do not err. Who say, that,...balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes eigh. And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled, then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain :— they do not err, Who say, that...departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal nl ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in... | |
 | T. P. Grinsted - Great Britain - 1867 - 340 pages
...almost completely overgrown with foliage, while a number of fine trees have sprung up among the ruins. " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groans reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." Lay of the Last... | |
 | T. P. Grinsted - Great Britain - 1867 - 340 pages
...have his shrine, in the midst of objects which iuvoked his minstrelsy, and which remember his loss : " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when...balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigli, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pages
...of imagining the objects of inanimate nature deploring over the loss of their fervent admirer : — Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when...weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distill, Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigb, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers... | |
 | Abraham Rynier Van Nest - Reformed Church in America - 1867 - 464 pages
...him, in death, the lines he so thrillingly applied in public to our great painter of Nature, Cooper: * Call it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that...cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan reply; And rivers teach their... | |
 | Abraham Rynier Van Nest - Reformed Church in America - 1867 - 482 pages
...in death, the lines he BO thrillingly applied in public to our great painter of Nature, Cooper : ' Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Natnre mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ! Who say, tall cliff and cavern lone For... | |
 | Abraham Rynier Van Nest - Reformed Church in America - 1867 - 480 pages
...in death, the lines he so thrillingly applied in public to our great painter of Nature, Cooper : ' Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mate Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ! Who say, tall cliff and cavern lone... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...weep in crystal rill ; , That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 1 And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; | And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his... | |
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CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers... 
