 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1884 - 500 pages
...thus obtained will form a poet's name : i. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. 2. No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the power that pities me, I learn to pity them. 3. Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers To deck her gay,... | |
 | Daniel A. Dombrowski - Philosophy - 1988 - 174 pages
...alone appreciates every creaturely nuance. As Oliver Goldsmith expresses the issue in "The Hermit": No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the power that pities me, I learn to pity them. Yet without the least taint of shrillness, the Nobel... | |
 | S. R. Parchment - Philosophy - 1996 - 136 pages
...imprisoned animals instinctively realizing their doom. Silently I pondered the words of Goldsmith: "No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me, I learn to pity them." THE JUST LAW OP COMPENSATION When animals have remained... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...gives the bird's song its true relish."58 In The Hermit: A Ballad (1766) we find the following lines: No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.59 It was, however, in his The Citizen of the World... | |
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No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring.... 
