O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. Common-school Literature, English and American: With Several Hundred ... - Page 140by James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 156 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1881 - 494 pages
...lake " one burnished sheet of living gold." " Ah," said John, drawing a deep breath, " ' Splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits, old in story,...across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory.' Look now how the sun streams up the valley just catching the top of Dunmail Raze, lighting up the whole... | |
| 430 pages
...rolling away up the rocks, and dying in the distance : — Oh hark ! oh heer ! how thin and clenr, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! Oh ! sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elunnd faintly blowing ! Blow ! let us hear the purple glens replying, — Blow, bugle ! answer, echoes... | |
| Electronic journals - 1897 - 666 pages
...for instance, the first of them, adding Ibe line which precedes the one MR. BOUCHIBR jnoted :— О sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Эг take two lines MR. BOUCHIER did not quote, in which the r has the chief place :— To watcb... | |
| Electronic journals - 1912 - 666 pages
...Princess.' It runs : — О hark ! О hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going 1 О sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing !] Who is the author of the following lines ? — With patient steps the path of duty run ; God never... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 196 pages
...broader toward his death and fell, and all The rosy heights came out above the lawns. The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story...Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, 0 hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! 0 sweet and far from cliff... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...the later editions of " The Princess," is less generally known. The splendor falls on castle walla And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes...of Elf-land faintly blowing. Blow, let us hear the pnrple glens replying, Blow, bugle, answer echoes, dying, dying, dying. 0 love, they die on yon rich... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...broader toward his death and fell, and all The rosy heights came out above the lawns. The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes And the mid cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes,... | |
| Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...noble songs as ever the world heard. Witness the " Bugle Song" from Tennyson's " Princess :" — " The splendor falls on castle -walls And snowy summits...Blow, bugle ! answer, echoes ! dying, dying, dying 1 " Oh hark ! oh hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going 1 Oh sweet and far,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...the Sun Grew broader toward his death and fell, and all v The rosy heights came out above the lawns. The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits...Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. 0 hark, 0 hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, further going ! 0 sweet and far, from cliff... | |
| Charles Dickens - Household words - 1853 - 504 pages
...Witness the " Bugle Song" from Tennyson's " Princess :" — " The splendor falls on castle walls Aud snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes...echoes ! dying, dying, dying ! " Oh hark ! oh hear .1 how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going 1 Oh sweet and far, from cliff and scar,... | |
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