| Bards and bardism - 1839 - 426 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale cotnes down the stream of- the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream ! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It...of song, mourning for the dead ! Bent is his head with age ; red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill? why complainest... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, О d on thy burial day, I sew the hearse that bore thee...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill ! why complainest thou,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...inconstant sun. Pled through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, О live The days of thy glory to see ; Hong, mourning for the dead! Bent is his head of age; red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou son of song,... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1850 - 548 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream ! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is tlie voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead ! Bent is his head of age ; red his tearful... | |
| Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 pages
...red through the stony vale. Thy murmurs, O stream, are sweet ! but the voice I hear is more sweet. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead ! His head of age is bent ; his tearful eye is red. CHANGED. The wind and the rain are past : calm... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1854 - 544 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is...song, mourning for the dead! Bent is his head of age : red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill ? why complainest thou,... | |
| Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1858 - 546 pages
...borrowed too many conceptions and images from Homer and the Old Testament : — " Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream, but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is...voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the deadl Bent is his head of age, and red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou SOD of song, why alone on the silent... | |
| James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream ! But more sweet is the voice I hear. It...Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead. Bent is the head of age, and red his tearful eye. Alpin, thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill ? Why... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...inconstant sun. Red, through the stony vale, comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is...Alpin thou son of song, why alone on the silent hill? AVhy com plainest thou as a blast in the wood, as a wave on the lonely shore ? Alpin—My tears, O... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream ! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song. Why alone on the silent hill ? Why complainest thou, as a blast in the wood, as a wave on the lonely... | |
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