 Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood — but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that...  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 211by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...nearer then to the divine life, and there the soul recognises most clearly its immortal features : Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Eeverberatious ; aud a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears ; Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Q2 Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood,...there the soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpair'd Of her own native vigour — but for this, That it is given her thence in age to hear Commingling... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear .Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1875 - 374 pages
...nearer then to the divine life, and there the soul recognises most clearly its immortal features : Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood—but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1876 - 270 pages
...that a man's happiness does not consist in the abundance of his money. CHAPTER VIII. MATTY AT HOME. " Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...footsteps unimpaired • Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears ; Or so he ought to move. pleasa ~, unimpair'd Of her own native vigour, thence can hear Reverberations, and a choral song, Commingling... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah, why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour— thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song. Commingling with the incense that ascends Undaunted,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpair'd Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...nearer then to the divine life, and there tho soul recognises most clearly its immortal features : Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood—but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...; and so moves the man ' 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and | fears, — Or so he ought to move Ah ! why in age ' Do we revert so fondly to the walks...dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigor ; thence can hear Reverberations; and a choral song, Commingling with the mcense that ascends... | |
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