 Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 449edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Cup - 1880 - 304 pages
...of these the wild bird will make ' its nest and the wearied child his pillow. . . . While the wild winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn...like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadows the drooping of its cowslip gold — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots... | |
 | Edward Step - Botany - 1881 - 270 pages
...frets them not, and the autumn wastes them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted,...tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-eyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned... | |
 | Edward Step - Botany - 1881 - 284 pages
...frets them not, and the autumn wastes them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted,...tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-eyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned... | |
 | Lochinvar (fict.name.) - 1882 - 312 pages
...nor pine in frost ; the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes them not. Sharing the stillnessof unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance...winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossomslike drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 876 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in loveliness, they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slowfingered, constant-hearted,...hills; to them, slowpencilled, iris-dyed, the tender tracing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted,...tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-eyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1883 - 946 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in loveliness, they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slowfingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dnrk, eternal tapestries of the hills; to them, slowpencilled, iris-dyed, the tender tracing of their... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1887 - 504 pages
...not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, •low-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the...their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unirapassioned rock, they share also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter... | |
 | Francis Buchanan White White - Natural history - 1888 - 444 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless... | |
 | Readers - 1889 - 236 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constanthearted,...dark, eternal, tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-penciled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the... | |
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