 | 1844 - 784 pages
...reminded of the music of the other. The first is the opening couplet of one of the Cantos of the Lay — " Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." Mr. Bryant's are these — "Truth crushed to Earth shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...himself a lawyer, and a father, (which will appear in our next,) may open the way for romething hetter. Call it not vain— they do not err, Who say, that...POET dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celehrates his ohsequies. For the New Mirror. RECOLLECTlONS OF THE LATE TYRONE POWER. BEFORE I proceed... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...manner of lanes after bits of rock and stone, crushing every beautiful flower in your eagerness, is * " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that...the poet dies. Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. Tom (putting his hand over her mouth). Pray don't say what it is till I tell you of a young lady who... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 854 pages
...unknown future, what wonder if those solemn lines of a brother bard should have crossed his mind : — Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourus lier worshipper And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' ilute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone,... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...Walter Scott, in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," sung of the sorrow felt at a bard's decease ! — " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say that when a J'oet dies Mute nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies — Who say, tall cliff... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...these beautiful objects, a shade of sadness seemed to rest on them, as if they bewailed the departed Minstrel. " Call it not vain — they do not err Who...cliff and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moau ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved... | |
 | E. Harmon - Shorthand - 1846 - 122 pages
...yet to come, And hears thy stormy music in the drum. LESSON xx. LAMENT FOR THE BARD.— SCOTT. Gall it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; G Who say tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...join with him in his sorrow for the death of his friends, as if she felt a sympathy for his loss. " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say that, when the poet dips, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." With this same feeling which... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - Art - 1848 - 52 pages
...profit." There are few, I suppose, who do not recollect the lines of Walter Scott, beginning thus : " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." This is said of the poet ; but the landscape painter is admitted, to a_doser familiarityj^h^jiaUjrejthaii... | |
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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... 
