The remains of John Briggs

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J. Richardson, 1825 - 395 ページ
 

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335 ページ - to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot; To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breath th ' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast
125 ページ - by the side of his dam ; To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, And more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying, Thy obsequies sung by the grey plover flying, With but one faithful friend to witness thy dying, In the arms of Helvellyn and
125 ページ - the canopied pall; Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming, Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a chief of the people should fall. But meeter for thee, gentle lover of nature, When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last
202 ページ - out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds
125 ページ - And ah! was it meet that no requiem read o'er him; No mother to weep, and no friend to deplore him 5 And thou, little guardian, alone stretched before him,
202 ページ - him down, the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And
125 ページ - All was still—save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And, starting around me, the echoes replied. Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; On the right,
125 ページ - mountain heather, Where the pilgrim of nature lay stretched in decay, Like the corpse of an outcast, abandoned to weather. Till the mountain winds wasted the tenantless clay: Not yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much loved remains of his master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away. How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber—
202 ページ - ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ;. Then lays him down, the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And
125 ページ - When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last breath by the side of his dam

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