 Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our master, famous calm and dead, Borne...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 239edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...First they tell •why they select this lofty eminence for his burying-place — why his honoured body should not repose in the valley ; then, marching slowly...chests, erect the head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our luaster, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders. Sleep, crop and herd ! sleep darkling thorpe... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...life was the level's and the night's : He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders ! This is our master, famous,...sleep, darkling thorpe and croft Safe from the weather 1 He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft, Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat,... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 pages
...heights— Wait ye the warning ? Our low life was the level's and the night's ; He's for the morning ! Step to a tune, square chests, erect the head, 'Ware...master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders. Here's the top-peak ! the multitude below Live, for they can there. This man decided not to Live but... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 pages
...the warning ? Our low life was the level's and the night's ; He's for the morning ! Step to a tuue, square chests, erect the head, 'Ware the beholders...master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders. Here's the top-peak ! the multitude below Live, for they can there. This man decided not to Live but... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1884 - 416 pages
...was the level's and the night's ; He 's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders ! This is our master, famous, calm and dead Borne on our shoulders." BEOWXINO. THE Dean's conclusion was the signal for a general movement, followed by general conversation,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 600 pages
...heights — Wait ye the warning ? Our low life was the level's and the night's ; He 's for the morning ! Step to a tune, square chests, erect the head, 'Ware...Sleep, crop and herd ! Sleep, darkling thorpe and Safe from the weather ! He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft, Singing together, He was a man born... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 400 pages
...life was the level's and the night's : He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders ! This is our master, famous,...sleep, darkling thorpe and croft Safe from the weather ! 30 He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft, Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1888 - 326 pages
...was the level's and the night's ; He 's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders ! This is our master, famous...sleep, darkling thorpe and croft, Safe from the weather i He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft, Singing together, He was a man born with thy face and throat,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...head two lines from a poem of his I had read some years before — the " Grammarian's Funeral," — " This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders." I remembered of the poem only that it was a long funeral chorus, if I may use the term, put into the... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 338 pages
...head two lines from a poem of his I had read some years before — the " Grammarian's Funeral," — " This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders." I remembered of the poem only that it was a long funeral chorus, if I may use the term, put into the... | |
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