 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 638 pages
...Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest land. 21. All ask the cottage of his birth. Gaze on the scenes...feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. 32. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888
...sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries ! The poet's... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - English poetry - 1888 - 167 pages
...lit by fortune's dimmer star, Are there, o'er wave and mountain come, From countries near and far. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he lov'd and sung, And gather feelings not of earth, His fields and streams among.' What do think, then,"... | |
 | John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 282 pages
...caused to bite the dust. A commemorative pillar was erected on the spot bearing this inscription : They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy seputchers, Dumfries I The poet's tomb is there.— Halleck. (Hunt.*.) Minerva,... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1891 - 316 pages
...Switzcr's snow, the Arab's sand, Or '-rod the piled leaves of the West,— My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...streams among. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pnstoral Xiih, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries 1 The poet's tomb is there. Hut what... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1893 - 256 pages
...Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest land— All seek the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved...the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchre, Dumfries !— The poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's... | |
 | Arthur Beaman Simonds - American poetry - 1894 - 310 pages
...The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, My own green forest-land. All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, 1 and wooded Ayr,* And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries ! * The... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Saint Andrews (Scotland) - 1894 - 384 pages
...repeat the lines written by a pilgrim from beyond the great Atlantic ; no one being within ear-shot : All ask the Cottage of his birth ; Gaze on the scenes...earth, His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr ; And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries : The Poet's... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1894 - 638 pages
...on the scenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among. 22. They linger by the Doon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The poet's tomb is there. 23. But what to them the sculptor's... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896
...Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West— My own green forest-land: All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes...earth His fields and streams among. They linger by the Boon's low trees, And pastoral Nith, and wooded Ayr, And round thy sepulchres, Dumfries! The Poet's... | |
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Poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns... 
