 | 1894 - 576 pages
...Lady of the Lake.' ' Call it not vain ; — they do not err Who nay, that when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.' He explains this by saying that the voices we attribute to Nature are the voices of departed spirits,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; I. Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach... | |
 | Walter Scott - Fore-edge painting - 1806 - 342 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...the departed bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystall rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh,... | |
 | 1806 - 448 pages
...this delightful stanza: " Call it not vain—they do not err, Who say, that, when the poet dies, Mnte Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies;...say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed hard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of halm distil; Through... | |
 | Walter Scott - Love poetry, Scottish - 1807 - 382 pages
...not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks,...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; Tli ;it flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain :—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies;...their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. II. Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn Those things inanimate can mourn ; But that the stream, the... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...Deer— fallow Deer! TALBOYS. " Call it not vain, they do not err Who say that, when the Poet dies, Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies...lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains meet in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes... | |
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CALL it not vain :— they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... 
