 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 406 pages
...Lay of the Last Minstrel, and, as if by instinct, the first lines my eye fell upon were these : — " Call it not vain: they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mute nature mouins her worshipper, And celebrates his ohsequies ; Who say, tall cliff and cavern lono For the departed... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1854 - 398 pages
...Lay of the Last Minstrel, and, as if by instinct, the first lines my eye fell upon were these : — " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when the poet diet, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliffand cavern... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 704 pages
...consecrated by the memory of Washington. Call it not vain— they do lu t err Who Bay that when the HK. o dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say that hill and forest lono For the departed Chief make moan ; Through his loved groves that breezes... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...blaze. s Smiled, then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of bahn distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers... | |
 | 1855 - 1130 pages
...store of peace, and truth, and love. Who, then, shall sing his requiem ? What shall be his epitaph ? 'They do not err Who say, that, when the poet dies,...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Who say, toll cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. £03 of tl)t Cast fflinstrcl. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worslupper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled, then, well-pleased, the Aged Man. And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...the grove, And men below and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Canto v. St. 1. Call it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say. that,...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... | |
 | George Williams Fulcher - Painters - 1856 - 266 pages
...suggested to the Bard 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...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; " Nor should we less the memory prize Of him, whose imitative art, Transcripts of nature still supplies,... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1857 - 596 pages
...ascend. Grander forms will bow in grief, and swell the profound lament. For we are not untruly told to " 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," Mr. President,... | |
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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... 
