...engage, In the days of my youth I remember'd my God, And he hath not forgotten my age." SOUTHEY. THE WATERFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow...heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their hazy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...

...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, For, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue" Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might...

...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies dowu to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last steps of dny. Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pomie Thy solitary way 1 Vainly the fowler's eye Might...

...must adduce it here, as a specimen of the elevated and polished style of Bryant's compositions:— Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...thou pursue Thy solitary way ? • • « Vainly the fowler s eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,...

...prepared himself for his hammock by kneeling and repeating the prayers of the hour. CHAPTER XVII. " Whither^ 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thoo pursue Thy solitary way 7" BRYANT. THE slumbers of Columbus were of short duration. While his...

...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While.../ Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, / Thy figure floats along. / Thou'rt...

...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /...

...mind, and a fine sense of effect in throwing its figure on the back ground of the "crimson sky," amid the pricks of nettles' But the merits which possibly have had most weight in the public estimation of the poem, are the melody...

...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended...

...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless...