 And far beneath their summer hill Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill. The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold, And wraps him closer from the cold ; His dogs no merry circles wheel, But, shivering, follow at his heel ; A cowering glance they often cast, As...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 1561819Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...some faded herbage pines, Ami yet a watery sunbeam shines ; In meek despondency they eye The wither'd ` , u , Glenkinnon's rill : The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold And wraps him closer from the cold ; His... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pages
...bloomed so rich on Needpath-fell ; Sallow his brow, and russet bare Are now the sister-heights of Yare. The sheep, before the pinching heaven, To sheltered...And far beneath their summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill : The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold, And wraps him closer from the cold ; His... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 pages
...before the pinching heaven, To sheltered dale and uown are driven, Where yet some faded herbage pinos, And yet a watery sunbeam shines : In meek despondency they eye The withered sward and \vintry sky, And far beneath their summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill : The shepherd shifts... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 248 pages
...reflects their purple gleam ; Away hath passed the heather-bell, That bloomed so rich on Needpath-Fell. The sheep, before the pinching heaven, To sheltered...faded herbage pines, And yet a watery sunbeam shines : The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold, And wraps him closer from the cold ; His dogs no merry circles... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Scott, Walter - 1878 - 202 pages
...Scotch winter is given in these few lines : — " The sheep before the pinching heaven To shelter'd dale and down are driven, Where yet some faded herbage...sunbeam shines : In meek despondency they eye The wither'd sward and wintry sky, And from beneath their summer hill Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill."... | |
 | John Veitch - Scottish ballads and songs - 1878 - 636 pages
...and russet bare Are now the sister heights of Yair. The sheep before the pinching heaven To shelter'd dale and down are driven, Where yet some faded herbage...sunbeam shines ; In meek despondency they eye The wither'd sward and wintry sky, And far beneath their summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...bloomed so rich on Needpath Fell ; Sallow his brow, and russet bare Are now the sister-heights of Yair. The sheep, before the pinching heaven, To sheltered...And far beneath their summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon's rill : The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold, And wraps him clo- er from the cold ; His... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1880 - 216 pages
...dignum domina sit intuente, cujus non noceat fidelis ardor, at pacem sine labe praestet almim. XIX. THE sheep, before the pinching heaven, to sheltered...despondency they eye the withered sward and wintry sky; the shepherd lifts his mantle's fold, and wraps him closer from the cold; his dogs no merry circles... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 pages
...bloomed so rich on Needpath Fell ; Sallow his brow, and russet bare Are now the sister-heights of Yair. The sheep, before the pinching heaven. To sheltered...faded herbage pines, And yet a watery sunbeam shines : I n meek despondency they eye i he withered sward and wintry sky, And far beneath their summer hill,... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...these few lines :— . , " The sheep before the pinching heaven -,,, ... , «,, • . , To sholter'd dale and down are driven, ' • ^ Where yet some faded...herbage pines, ,. •. , . And yet a watery sunbeam shinea : *..«:••• • • • »• In meek despondency they eye • . . tn". The wither'd sward... | |
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