 | 1879 - 884 pages
...on the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns, and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...these sleepers thus recalled in the same hour to life 1 Do the stars rain tlown an influence, or do we share some thrill of mother earth below our resting... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1879 - 300 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hill-sides and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night Even shepherds and old country folk, who are the deepest read in these arcana, have not a guess as... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1879 - 1410 pages
...lair among the ferns, and hou.-*less men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eves ami behold the beauty of the night. At what inaudible summons, at what gentle touch of Nature, are all 1879] Holiday Travel-Books. 409 these sleepers thus recalled in the .same hour to life ? Do the stars... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...their fast on dewy hill sides, and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who hare lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night." And waking at this hour, " towards two in the morning," he made a cigarette, and gave himself to pleasant... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hill-sides, and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night." And waking at this hour, " towards two in the morning," he made a cigarette, and gave himself to pleasant... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - Description (Rhetoric) - 1895 - 212 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, 25 and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...Nature, are all these sleepers thus recalled in the same 30 hour to life ? Do the stars rain down an influence, or do we share some thrill of mother earth below... | |
 | 1895 - 612 pages
...meadows, sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and homeless men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night. . . . Yet even when I was exulting in my solitude, I became conscious of a strange lack. I wished a... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1899 - 790 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night. — IBID. 8. One thing only De Launay could have done — what he said he would do. Fancy him sitting,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - English essays - 1900 - 228 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night. . . . When that hour came to me among the pines, I wakened thirsty. My tin was standing by me half... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - English essays - 1900 - 226 pages
...the meadows ; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns ; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls,...their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night. . . . When that hour came to me among the pines, I wakened thirsty. My tin was standing by me half... | |
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... hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows; not this time to announce the dawn, but like a cheerful watchman speeding the course of night. Cattle awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy... 
