So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained... The Poets and Poetry of America - Page 103by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 476 pagesFull view - About this book
| Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...history and in nature, and receive from each an accession to his power. ' • So lire, that whoa thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that...quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of... | |
| American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off, — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join C, The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off, — Shall, one by one, be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow...comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not,... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off, — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow...comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not,... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...and maid, The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off, — Shall one by one be gather'd to thy side, By those,...comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silcnt halls of death, Thou go not,... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 514 pages
...matron and maid, The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its Innocent age cut off, Shall one by one be gather'd to thy side, By those...comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take HU chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not,... | |
| 1829 - 642 pages
...matron and maid, The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off, Shall one by one be gather'd to thy side, By those...shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons cornea to joiu The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take... | |
| J. M. Putnam - English language - 1831 - 174 pages
...and maid) The bow'd with age, the infant, in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off,— Shall one by one be gather'd to thy side, By those,...comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall lake H» chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not,... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 598 pages
...years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow...quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaultering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the grey-headed man — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow...quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaultering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of... | |
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