 Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand...  Bell's Edition - Page 110by John Bell - 1799Full view - About this book
 | W. Samuel - 1868 - 216 pages
...mountains round (unhappy fate !) Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise ; Still the prospect...— widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill; Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene, But... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits Irani the skies, arth Spins like a fretful midge. Heard hardly, some...games Spake evermore among themselves Their virginal c newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ; Sooner or later of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, Xܰ . . . meade ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now, I gain the mountain's brow,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapoi-s... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors... | |
 | 1876 - 326 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow; What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds & thousand woods and meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below! No clouds, no vapors... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise. Still the prospect...spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads ; Still it witleus, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow ; What a landscape... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...lay, And vistas shootmg beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale. As circles on a smooth canal : And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect...meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly risen hill. Now I gain the mountain.* brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clonds, no vapours... | |
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