| John Fanning Watson - 1870 - 682 pages
...area is now closely filled with the little grassy mounds which cover the dead: — " e Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefather's of the hamlet sleep:'... | |
| Rosamond L. Grey - 1871 - 212 pages
...were dotted those lowly mounds to which Gray referred, when he wrote that verse : — " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in hie narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
| Wakefield (Mass.) - 1872 - 130 pages
...cemeteries, and meditate upon life's evanescence, among those mossy monuments, where, " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the...in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." The settlement of this village was commenced... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 15 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breesy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing... | |
| Henry Major - 1873 - 580 pages
...top to toe, His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, He manfully did throw." 23. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew- tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 514 pages
...we almost expect to hear the clink of Old Mortality's chisel among the gravestones. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew- tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| California. Department of Public Instruction - 1873 - 390 pages
...Among her worshippers." One credit off for each error uncorrected. Ten Credits. 10. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
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