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![]() With echoes of a glorious name, But he, whose loss our tears deplore, Has left behind him more than fame. |
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![]() Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods -- rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, -- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. |
![]() Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods -- rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, -- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. |
![]() Murder and spoil, which men call history. |
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![]() Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. |
![]() The pleasant memory of their worth, The hope to meet when life is past, Shall heal the tortured mind at last. |
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![]() With wind, and cloud, and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valley flies. |
![]() Too bright, too beautiful to last. |
![]() Were flung upon the fervid page, Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a cold and coward age. |
![]() Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, -- |
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