Since he, so gray and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell how deep the shade A thousand mingled branches made ; How broad the shadows of the oak, How clung the rowan to the rock, And through the foliage showed his... Modern Painters ... - Page 274by John Ruskin - 1856Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...broad the shadows of the oak, How clung the rowan a to the rock, And through the foliage shewed his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...clung the rowan * to the rock, And through the foliage shewed his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...thorn, would hs could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...clung the rowan * to the rock, And through the foliage shewed his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...sapling hough ; Would he could tell how deep the shade, A thousand mingled hranches made ; How hroad the shadows of the oak, How clung the rowan* to the...the foliage showed his head, With narrow leaves, and herries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every dell what hirches hung, * Mountaln-aSh.... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 256 pages
...Thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...clung the rowan* to the rock. And through the foliage shew'd his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 530 pages
...Thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...clung the rowan* to the rock, And through the foliage shew'd his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every... | |
| Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 pages
...three hundred years ; Yen ancient well, would it could tell. The changes of the parent dell ; Would it could tell how deep the shade A thousand mingled branches...; How broad the shadows of the oak ; How clung the ivy to the roof. The second paper relates a pure and disinterested act of benevolence and liberality... | |
| Marmaduke Tulket - 1821 - 376 pages
...three hundred yean ; Yen ancient well, would it could tell. The changes of the parent dell ; Would it could tell how deep the shade A thousand mingled branches...; How broad the shadows of the oak ; How clung the ivy to the roof. The second paper relates a pure and disinterested act of benevolence and liberahty... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...Thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...clung the rowan* to the rock, And through the foliage shew'd his head, With narrow leaves, and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, • Since he, so gray and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell...deep the shade, A thousand mingled branches made; How broüd the shadow« of the oak, How clung the MV m ' to the rock, And through the foliage sliow'd his... | |
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