| 1848 - 594 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Vainly the fowler's eye Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 psl.
...Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye /• f Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, I Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or... | |
| John Frost - 1850 - 558 psl.
...marked by the swiftness of their flight, and the height to which they soar : " Vainly the fowler'* eye, Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong; As darkly painted on the crimson iky. Thy figure float* along. "Seek'st tluw the pla»hy brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of river wide... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way,2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rooking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 542 psl.
...by man ; and they are marked by the swiftness of their flight, and the height to which they soar : " Vainly the fowler's eye, Might mark thy distant flight,...painted on the crimson sky. Thy figure floats along. "Seck'st thou the plashy brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of river wide ; Or where the rocking billows... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy hrink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking hillows rise and sink On the chafed... | |
| 1854 - 128 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean.side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Thou 'rt gone, th' abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet in my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 psl.
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? " Vainly the fowler's eye, Might mark thy distant flight...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. " Seekest thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide ; Or, where the rocking billows... | |
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