...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, For, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue" Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might...

...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, aud lies dowu to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last steps of dny. Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pomie Thy solitary way 1 Vainly the fowler's eye Might...

...must adduce it here, as a specimen of the elevated and polished style of Bryant's compositions:— Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...thou pursue Thy solitary way ? • • « Vainly the fowler s eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,...

...prepared himself for his hammock by kneeling and repeating the prayers of the hour. CHAPTER XVII. " Whither^ 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thoo pursue Thy solitary way 7" BRYANT. THE slumbers of Columbus were of short duration. While his...

...northward with their masterly flight, there was no suggestion of the barnyard or farm pond up there. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through the rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Bryant, by the way, handled natural subjects in...

...asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep. Vainly, the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wron^ As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Of the second kind we quote a...

...Waterfowl] alluded to by our Albany correspondent ' HUXTIXGTOX,' was originally printed as follows : ' VAINLY the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight,...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.' 1 HcimxGTOjf ' informs us that in the last London edition this is changed from ' darkly limned upon...

...Waterfowl? alluded to by our Albany correspondent ' HUNTINGTON,' was originally printed as follows : 1 VAINLY the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, As darkly paint, J on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.' ' HuNTiNr.TON ' informs us that in the last...

...never witnessed, and from which they may derive their sustenance."— Tract Society's Monthly Volume. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy hrink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed...

...repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. Grny. TO A "WATER-FOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew,7 While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. (1) Fair science, &c. — te the lowliness of his birth (not, however, that Gray's birth was actually...