. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . • To him, who, in the love of Nature, holdsCommunioa with her visible forms, she speaks4. various laneuaae. TIIANATOPSTS. 215 Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claimThy growth, to be resolved to earth again;And, lost each human trace, surrendering upThine individual being, shalt thou goTo mix forever with the elements;To be a brother to the insensible to the sluggish clod, which the rude swainTurns with his share, and treads upon. The oak. THE VENERABLE WOODS. Sha
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . • To him, who, in the love of Nature, holdsCommunioa with her visible forms, she speaks4. various laneuaae. TIIANATOPSTS. 215 Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claimThy growth, to be resolved to earth again;And, lost each human trace, surrendering upThine individual being, shalt thou goTo mix forever with the elements;To be a brother to the insensible to the sluggish clod, which the rude swainTurns with his share, and treads upon. The oak. THE VENERABLE WOODS. Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy not to thine eternal resting-placeShalt thou retire alone,—nor couldst thou wishCouch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie downWith patriarchs of the infant world,—with ,The powerful of the earth,—the wise, the the Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,All in one mighty sepulchre. The , and ancient as the sun; valesStretching in pensive quietness between ;The venerable woods; rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old oceans gray and melancholy waste,—15 Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man! The golden sun,The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,Are shining on the sad abodes of the still lapse of ages. All that treadThe globe are but a handful to the tribesThat slumber in its bosom. Take the wingsOf morning, traverse Barcas desert sands,Or lose thyself in the continuous wood
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