...The water-fowl, in the long pilgrimage of many a thousand miles, knows naught of Him who teaches its way " Along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air," — '- Lone wandering, but not lost." To the dog, man stands for God or devil. The "half-reasoning elephant" knows nobody and is conscious...

...pleasing hope, this fond desire, • This longing after immortality? Bryant says of the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. [23] He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way...

...merit. We fully recognize the poet in Thou'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form. , moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved...cannot be completed at one sitting. We may contin The Forest Hymn consists of about a hundred and twenty blank Pentameters, of whose great rhythmical...

...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way! (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 — (1. 13-14) 27 He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In...

...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...and illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,...

...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink 10 Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — 15 The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned,...

...Wherever it may be, "Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong" because "There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through...

...the sea"(Ps 139:9). In response to the wonder of migration, William Cullen Bryant penned the words "There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast" ("To a Waterfowl"). The Lord asks Job, "Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom?" (Job 39:26). For Jeremiah...

...natural theology. Oak Park High School required Hemingway to memorize both Bryant's "Ode to a Waterfowl" ("There is a Power whose care / Teaches thy way along that pathless coast" [26]) and "Thanatopsis" ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from...

...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,...