...home, and rest And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou 'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. WC BRYANT. TO A YOUNG OAK. YOUNG OAK, when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days...

...thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart p He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. THE BATTLE-FIELD. OXCE this soft turf, this rivulet's sands, Were trampled by a hurrying crowd, And fiery...

...maze of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean tide ? Thou 'rt gone ! the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form...lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. BRYANT. Permian* or magnesian limestone system, which is included among the primary stratified rocks,...

...summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through...

...summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. 25 Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up...shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, 30 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will...

...thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, 29. In the 1825 "Lectures," Bryant declares, "Well, when we are persuaded to part with our hearth-fires,...

...William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl," 1815, 11. 29-32. The lines in the 1821 edition of Poems read: He, who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. See William Cullen Bryant. Poems. Cambridge: Printed By Milliard And Metcalf, 1821, p. 28. 7.33 my...

...him corresponds to the instinct that guides the bird, and that the Power watches over him as well: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Bryant did not invent the stanza form of "To a Waterfowl," which he found in Southey's poem, "Hope."...

...Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1 8031882) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 8.1.1 IÌRYAXT, BUILDER He who, from zone to zone. Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. — William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" The last lines from William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl,"...

...waterfowl in a mood of joyous pensive affirmation, then the last points the pious moral (APNC i: 125): He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. The genre extends back, of course, to the British romantics and thence to Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan -...