 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 276 pages
...sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With...name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 276 pages
...sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by tbe unlettered luuso, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 276 pages
...sequestered vale of life i They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 300 pages
...the last tribute v/hich the humblest pay to the most humble. " Yet e'en those bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 1 The stranger who in days to come, shall visit our... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 251 pages
...of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 276 pages
...sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,...passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, American - 1830
...sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to o from the mountains on each sido, concurs to form...beheld. Add to this the étrange views made by the crags Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 480 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 240 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse,... | |
| |
Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
