| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 Seiten
...the Highlanders, like the Ulalatus of the Romans, and the Ululoo of the Irish, was a wild expresLike a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest....To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 Seiten
...thou art not of those That wait the ripened bloom, to seize their prey. Mrs. Hemans. IV. FUNERAL SONG. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest,...need was the sorest ! The font, reappearing, From the rain drops shall borrow ; But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow I The hand of the reaper... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 Seiten
...vacancy ; Thus, motionless, and moanless, drew His parting breath, stout Roderick Dhu ! f THE CORONACH.} He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, » The Minstrel. f " Rob Roy, while on his deathbed, learned that a person, with whom he was at enmity,... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...CORONACH.1 He is gone on the monntain. He is lost to the forest, Like a snmmer-dried fonntain, When onr need was the sorest. The font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, Bnt to ns eomes no eheering, To Dnnean no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...war, ii .1-4- je e'er heard of gallant like young LochinTar! Coronach. [From the ' Lady of the Lata.1] eternity 1 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present 1 The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the Toice of the weeper Wails manhood in... | |
| James O'Connell - 1851 - 436 Seiten
..."sublime old Erse" idiom, by Scott in the lament of Khenach (§ 79) over the dead body of Duncan. " He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest...summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest." The words in italics imply now, of course, the death of the lamented ; but they still express, as they... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...Queen' !" Formula xxa 2+. In the following lines there are two Anapests and an additional syllable. He is gone' on the mount'ain. He is lost' to the for'est,...summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest : Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river; Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 Seiten
...journeyings of the sun, Where streams of living waters run. LESSON LXXV. Coronach. — SIR W. SCOTT. 1. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest,...borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! 2. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...weeps, but knows not why The village maids and matrons round The dismal coronach resound. CORANACH. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest,...rain-drops shall borrow But to us comes no cheering, The hand of the reaper Take the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory... | |
| Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 Seiten
...is lost to love and me. HE IS GONE ON THE MOUNTAIN. 8i» WAITKR SCOTT. From the " Lady of tho Lake." HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall... | |
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