 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...alone. — So shalt thou rest — and what if thou withdraw Unheeded by the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share... | |
 | Lewis Turco - American poetry - 1986 - 198 pages
...Mother Nature seems distinctly unmatronly among such lines: ". . . the dead are there: / And millions in those solitudes, since first / The flight of years...there alone, / So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw / In silence from the living, and no friend / Take note of thy departure? All that breathe... | |
 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings— yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure'? All that breathe Will... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - Nature - 1992 - 400 pages
...rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep. And so, in time, shall we. And if there be, indeed, a special nobility inherent in the human race —... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shall thou rest: and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...offers philosophical consolation in the face of death, the promise of brotherhood with the millions who "since first / The flight of years began, have laid them down / In their last sleep." The voice speaks in blank verse, without the "restraint . . . [of] rhyme," and is conversational and prosaic,... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings—yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: 55 And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend 60 Take note of thy departure? All that breathe... | |
 | Dudley C. Gould - Korean War, 1950-1953 - 1999 - 402 pages
...be known automatically as a fullgrown man, a real patriot, to enemy a dangerous man? And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...their last sleep — the dead reign there alone. So shall thou rest; and what ifthou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,...— and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care... | |
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Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the... 
