 Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.  Poems - Page 173by William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
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...hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these...leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. The century -living crow Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till, at... | |
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...hand Hath reared these venerahle columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these...thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy hreeze, And shot towards heaven. The century-living crow Whose hirth was in their tops, grew old and... | |
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...hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look do\vu Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these...breeze, And shot towards heaven. The century-living crovr Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till, at last, they stood,... | |
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...happy, if it find Acceptance in his ear. Father, thy hand Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose AH these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded,...century-living crow Whose birth was in their tops, grow old and died Among their branches, till, at last, they stood, As now they stand, massy and tall... | |
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...hand Hath reared these venerable colnmns I Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranks of trees. They in thy sun Budded ; and .hook their green leaves in thy brec/e ; And shot towards heaven. The century-living crow,' Whose birth... | |
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...hand Hath reared these venerahle columns; thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these...thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy hreeze. And shot towards heaven. The century-living erow, Whose hirth was in their tops, grew old and... | |
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...verdant roof; thou <1н1.ч1 look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranki of trees : they in thy sun Budded, and shook their...green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven." CW BRYANT. WHEN the item of a plant is designed to be of a greater duration than one or two years,... | |
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