 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 240 pagina’s
...eyed The spring beneath the tree } And thus the dear old Man replied, The grey-hair'd Man of glee. " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chuse but think How oft, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pagina’s
...eyed The spring beneath the tree; And thus the dear old Man replied, The grey-hailed Man of glee.— " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. " And here, on this delightful day,- ' I cannot chuse but think How oft,, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...eyed The spring beneath the tree ; And thus the dear old man replied, The gray-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. " And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...eyed The spring beneath the tree ; And thus the dear old man replied, The gray-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. " And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pagina’s
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pagina’s
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pagina’s
...eyed The spring beneath the tree; And thus the dear old man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 382 pagina’s
...melancholy associations of youth remembered in age, expressed in the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years. And flow, as now It flows. " And here, on this delightful day, T cannot choose but think, How oft a vigorous man I lay Beside... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pagina’s
...the dear old man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : • Down to tbe vale this water steers, Bow merrily it goes ! Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. • And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chute but think Bow oft, a vigorous man, I lay leside... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagina’s
...wave the old, but yet strong and leafy boughs ; beside them runs the river along its rocky bed ; — " Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows :" but the home of ancient state is stripped bare of all that once adorned it, nor roof nor floor remains... | |
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Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the... 
