...all The vast and shadowy banquet-hall Is full of looks and words divine! Leaning over the parapet. The day is done; and slowly from the scene The stooping...draughts We drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched with the shadows of its sombre margent, And...

...all The vast and shadowy banquet-hall Is full of looks and words divine ! Leaning over the parapet. The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping...draughts We drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through those lovely regions, Etched with the shadows of its sombre margent, And...

...offering and expression of Mr. Longfellow's ripened powers. What can be more exqusite than this — " The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping...draughts We drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Plows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched with the shadows of its sombre margent, And...

...all The vast and shadowy banquet-hall Is full of looks and words divine ! ,Leaning over tlie parapet. The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping...draughts We drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched with the shadows of its sombre margent, And...

...utters the following soliloquy, which we transcribe as a passage of considerable descriptive merit. " The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping...draughts We drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Flows on trinmphant through those lovely regions, Etched with the shadows of its sombre margent, And...

...Walter, from the parapet, takes a view of the surrounding country, and indulges in the fallowing reverie: The day is done; and slowly from the scene The stooping...green As goblets are, from which in thirsty draughts We"drink its wine, the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched...

...utters the following soliloquy, which we transcribe as a passage of considerable descriptive merit "The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers his sjient shafts, And puts them hack into his golden quiver ! Below me in the valley, deep and green As...

...broken by nothing save the occasional tinkle of a goat's bell, or the shrill cry of some bird of prey. " The day is done, and slowly from the scene The stooping...golden quiver! Below me in the valley, deep and green, ****** * * * the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched...

...the occasional tinkle of a goat's bell, or the shrill cry of some bird of prey. " The day is clone, and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers...golden quiver! Below me in the valley, deep and green, ****** * * * the swift and mantling river Flows on triumphant through these lovely regions, Etched...

...farfetched. Take the following excerpts, metaphorical and figurative, in illustration of the poet's manner : The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping...shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver.* — The consecrated chapel on the crag, And the white hamlet gather'd round its base, Like Mary sitting...