I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between... Biennial Report - Page 2501889Full view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...it along the air, And I must follow, would I ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or...my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all tho race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times When they... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...it along the air, And I must follow, would I ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or...mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend to me, and call me... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...with it along the And I must follow, would I ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or...mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend to me, and call me... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...life, I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But l in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors,...mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend to me, and call me... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...it along the air, And 1 must follow, would I ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But 1 in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the... | |
| Sermons, American - 1889 - 690 pages
...something in us that thrills responsively to those words of Lowell from " Under the Willows " : — " I care not how men trace their ancestry. To ape or...progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race." There does seem to us, in the trees and the shadow of the mountains and on the seashore, a sense of... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, 85 To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But...all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet 90 There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...ever find The inward rhyme to all this wealth of life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, 85 To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But...all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet 90 There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...life. I care not how men trace their ancestry, 85 To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But 1 in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors,...all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet 90 There is between us. Surely there are times When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend... | |
| Sermons, American - 1880 - 592 pages
...you can fail to catch the meaning and the beauty of these words from " Under the Willows " : — " I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam l let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my fair progenitors,... | |
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