...The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The Xed-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And lastly...

...The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found i The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And...

...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned himself. For the...

...Approach and read (forthou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands...violets found " The redbreast loves to build and warble there, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap...

...the woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found : The redbreast loves to build, and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves,...

...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet,...

...red-breast*, wren3, water-wagtail, 1 See TT for 1814, p. 304 ; and for 1817, p. 125. 1 Here scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to haunt and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY. See likewise TT for 1818,...

...themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " into the body of the Elegy. It is acknowledged...

...pebbles that can be found on the shore below. You will be romantic, and imagine that Here scatterM oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And tiny footsteps lightly print the ground. But the brake, alas ! cannot afford shelter sufficient for...

...The lines, however, are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." — M. I find the first traces of this beautiful...