...resounding horn, The pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle ; with the din, Meanwhile,...trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while the far-distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars...

...precipices rang aloud; Th» leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far-distant hills • tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed while the stars, Kaatward, were sparkling clear, and in the west Tb« orange gkjr of evening died away. Not seldom from...

...of skating, vol. I, page 44" to 47, especially to the lines So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle: with the din Meanwhile...clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.l Or to the poem on the green linnet, vol. I. p. 244. What can be more accurate yet more lovely...

...that it is time to come home; he is then summoned more imperiously by the church clock tolling six. Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless...icy crag Tinkled like iron; while the distant hills 165 Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed; while the stars, Eastward, were...

...hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle; with the din 15 Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars...

...resounding horn, The pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle. With the din, Meanwhile,...clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away. (I, 460-73) Other examples are I, 372-426 ('The Stolen Boat'), I, 333-50 ('Skating'), II, 99-144...

...dark: So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars...

...hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle; with the din 440 Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars...

...resounding horn, The pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle. With the din, Meanwhile,...icy crag Tinkled like iron; while the distant hills 10 15 Of melancholy, not unnoticed; while the stars, Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west...

...schoolmaster at Hawkshead, the skaters' exuberant halloos meet with subdued echoes of faintly Gothic import: not a voice was idle: with the din, Meanwhile, the...tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed. (/J 1799, bk. 1,ll. 162.-67) In its turn, such "alien sound of melancholy" attenuates the youths' overconfident...