...the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the...

...because it didn't have trees on it." — 209 — THE TALLGRASS CAPITAL OF TEXAS ... The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That made the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste. William Cullen...

...good, fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, all in one mighty sepulcher. The hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales stretching in...rivers that move in majesty, and the complaining brooks thai make the meadows green; and, poured round all, old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — are...

...short original poem in the "North American Review" for September, 1817: — "...The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; the floods that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That wind among the meads and make them...

...find it again in nature's forms, which monumentally mask an ineffable reality: The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of...