...sign, its steadfast course, Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source ; Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...he loved to quote the beautiful lines of Wordsworth — Like clouds that rake the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Or again, those lines of Uhland, as translated — Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ! Take, I give...

...Wordsworth mourns over the quick succession of losses among the best and greatest of his contemporaries — How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land. but among them all the one of whom his contemporaries had the highest opinion and hopes, as a poet...

...creature sleeps in earth : And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. 2° Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanlsh'd from his lonely hearth.' Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother fohhow'd brother From sunshine to the sunless land! Yet I, whose lids from Infant slumber Were earlier...

...from his lonclv hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountaiasummits, Or waves that own no curbing band, How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I , whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...mouldering ruins low he lies ; And death upon the braes of Yarrow, Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes. Like clouds that rake the mountainsummits, Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber, Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...gave expression to his feelings in an exquisite ' Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.' ' Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...mouldering ruins low he lies; And death upon the braes of Yarrow, Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land I Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber, Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...

...the Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg, — Like clouds that rake the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! The lilt of the verse of the earlier poetry has in the later yielded to graver and more solemn sound, as...