 Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from...  The Curse of Kehama - Page 8by Robert Southey - 1812Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 pages
...fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, Oft comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid • springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower, and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder palm,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 338 pages
...canes which crackling fell before his way, And tassel-grass, 'whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant to slake His...at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now, Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,... | |
 | Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 584 pages
...canes which, crackling, fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'erlapping the young trees, On comes the elephant to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid spring." The elephant-hunter's qualifications, "Mighty Hunters." — The start. — The Coonoor Pass.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 352 pages
...before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On conies the Elephant to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now, Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder... | |
 | Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 564 pages
...canes which, crackling, fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'erlapping the young trees, On comes the elephant to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid spring." The elephant-hunter's qualifications, "Mighty Hunters." — The start. — The Coonoor Pass.... | |
 | 1869 - 392 pages
...light heads. 434. Why is the elephants trunk capable of a great variety of motions ? NATURAL BISTORT. 1 Lo ! from his trunk upturn'd aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now He plucks the broad-leafed bough." — SOUTHET. There are in this trunk no less than four thousand... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 264 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, , O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His...noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder palm,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His...noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder palm,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 838 pages
...canes, which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-gnus, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His...noon, in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk, upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now, Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 144 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his w.iy, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His...noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder palm,... | |
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