...flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky. ' The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught...Unskilled the subtle lines to trace, Or softer shades of Nature *s face, I view her common forms with unanointed eyes. ' Nor mine the seer-like power to show...

...capabilities as a poet we are partly willing to accept his own estimate. Ho says, in his Proem, that " The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught...beauty, dreamy grace No rounded art the lack supplies." &c. We certainly do not find in the poetry of Whittier that exquisite felicity of rhythmical structure...

...with glad etui lips the blessing of the sky. ' The rigor of a frozen clime, • The harshness of au untaught ear, The jarring words of one whose rhyme...Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, are here. 1 Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded »rt the lack supplies ; Unskilled the subtle lines to...

...flowers In silence feel the dewy showers. And drink with glad, still lips the blessing of the «ky. The rigor of a frozen clime. The harshness of an untaught ear, The jamng words of one, whose rhyme Beats often Labor's hurried time. Or Duty's rugged march through storm...

..." the old melodious lays," and how he tries in vain to breathe their marvelous notes, he says : — "The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an...Beat often labor's hurried time, Or duty's rugged mareh through storm and strife are here. " Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded art the lack...

...frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught oar, TluJ jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often lahor's hurried time, Or duty's rugged march through storm and strife are here. " Of mystic heauty, dreamy grace, No rounded art the lack supplies ; Uuskill'd the suhtle lines to trace, Or softer...

...and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky. The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught...lack supplies ; Unskilled the subtle lines to trace Nor mine the seer-like power to show The secrets of the heart and mind; To drop the plummet-line below...

..." the old melodious lays," and hew he tries in vain to breathe their marvelous notes, he says : — "The rigor of a frozen clime. The harshness of an...beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded art the lack supplies ; t'uskill'd the subtle lines to trace, Or softer shades of nature's face, I view her common forms...

...and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky. The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught...time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, ara here. Of mystio beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded art the lack supplies ; Unskilled the subtle lines...

...and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky. The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught...time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, art here. Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace, No rounded art the lack supplies ; Unskilled the subtle lines...