 The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered...  Notes and Queries - Page 4421904Full view - About this book
 | Edward Marston - Fishing - 1896 - 222 pages
...looking nigh ; How restless are the snorting swine. The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how sharp he...on the hearth with velvet paws Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws ; The smoke from chimneys right ascends, Then spreading back to earth it bends ; The... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Meteorology - 1897 - 240 pages
...How restless are the snorting swine ! • The busy jlies disturb the kine ; • Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; • The cricket, too, how sharp...bends ; • The wind unsteady veers around, • Or setting in the South is found. • Through the clear stream the fishes rise, • And nimbly catch th'... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Meteorology - 1897 - 248 pages
...' How restless are the snorting swine ! ' The busy flies disturb the khie ; • Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; ' The cricket, too, how sharp...ascends, ' Then spreading back to earth it bends ; ' The wiiid unsteady veers around, ' Or setting in the South is found. ' Through the clear stream the fishes... | |
 | Weather - 1898 - 266 pages
...disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how sharp he sings t * Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws ; Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies ; The glow-worms,... | |
 | Mark Walrod Harrington - Meteorology - 1899 - 296 pages
...looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he...with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws ; Through the clear stream the fishes rise And nimbly catch the incautious flies ,. The glowworms,... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - American poetry - 1903 - 312 pages
...seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ; The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp he sings;...velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - American poetry - 1903 - 312 pages
...flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how sharp he sings j Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous... | |
 | John S. Fowler, William Marriott - Meteorology - 1912 - 152 pages
...looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he...with velvet paws Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. '1 hrough the clear stream the fishes rise And nimbly catch th' incautious flies. The glowworms, numerous... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 268 pages
...seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ; The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he...velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glowworms, numerous... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1824 - 510 pages
...he tings .' I'HSS on the hearth, with ir.l,-il paws, Sits wiping o'er her tchitker'djaws. The imokf from chimneys right ascends ; Then spreading, back...The wind unsteady veers around, Or settling in the Sovth is found. Through the clear stream ihe fishes rite, find nimbly catch lh' incautious flits. The... | |
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