 | American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...your fibrous roots, О Larch Tree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That tho water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning. Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said, with one long... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1855 - 344 pages
...framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir- Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...framework. '•Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the s«am<' together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the fir-tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all ita robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1855 - 346 pages
...framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir- Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir-Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...framework. "Give me of your bolm, O Fir-Tree! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the fir-tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...together. " Give me of your roots, O Tamarack! Of your fibrous roots , O Larch-Tree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water...river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said, with one long... | |
 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...framework. " Give me of your balm, O FirTree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir-Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | Reformed Church - 1856 - 670 pages
...strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me."— " That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me." Thus far the verse of the two poems — rhymeless trochaic dimeter with Oriental repetitions — is... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1857 - 242 pages
...framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together, That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 240 pages
...together. " Give me of your roots, O Tamarack ! Of your fibrous roots, O Larch Tree ! My canoe to bind together, That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me." And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said, with one long... | |
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Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me... 
