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...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured all round, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Of the great tomb of man. Here is no arena of...

...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietude between — The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks...

...process of man's life in time: . . . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb...

...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth— the wise, the good, Fair...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great...

...were God's ways." But the noblest expression of this anthropomorphism is Bryant's "Thanatopsis": ... The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old oceans gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great...

...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable...

...Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages...sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In...

...Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, 35 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; 40 The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows...

...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good Fair...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre . . . By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About...