 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'er'thrown. Young Romance raised...eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold ; "Why smite," lie asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 316 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old aecustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'crhung with paly locks of gold, — " Why smite," he asked in sad surpris " The fair, the old ? "... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrowii. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold ; "Why smite," he asked in sn<l surprise, "The fair, the old?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer Hashed his... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Youne Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly...dust-cloud rolled,— The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Up-springing from the ruined Old I saw the New. 'Twas but the ruin of the bad,— The wasting of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stona, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised..." The fair, the old ? " Yet louder rang the Strong One*s stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly looks of gold, — " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old Í" Yet louder rang the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 444 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...Shuddering and sick of heart I woke. As from a dream. THE PRISONER FOR DEBT. 99 I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed the Builder... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 pages
...extant which can check the tide of progress or hinder the march of enlightenment as years go on. ' ' Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer...Shuddering and sick of heart I woke As from a dream." Then there is a transition, for the seeming Destroyer is also the only sure and steadfast Builder ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 458 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhun^ with paly locks of gold, — " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, " The fair, the old ?"... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 524 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...surprise, "The fair, the old?" Yet louder rang the Strong One'sstroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream.... | |
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Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed... 
