...growing winters lay me low ; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiecover'd hinds. If. Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely...in low estate began And on a simple village green ; 1 Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chin«, And breasts the blows...

...As, unto vaster motions bound, The circuits of thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. 87 DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life hi low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps...

...forgetting," then how far backward over our days can the uninterrupted " I " be fairly said to extend ? When " some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green," at last " breaks his birth's invidious bar," and passes on to new desires, new opinions, at last a...

...back on what hath bccn, As some divinely gifted man, \Vhosc life in low estate began ;j ' j Anll on .; simple village green : Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, j] . And breasts thc blows of circinnstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by foree his...

...enterprise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began to quote from the " In Memoriam," " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance, I hope, however, old boy ; let us...

...up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks liis birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstanceAnd grapples with his evil star" ! And yet, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the...

...vaster motions bound, The circuits of thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIII. TAOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,...

...conjure up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the hill, the stream, and the friend that was liis...

...excellent specimen of the rigid, upright, shrewd Scotsman, who " Breaks his birth's invidious bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." At the Medico- Chirurgical Society on Wednesday night Dr. Stewart, a new member, read an able paper...

...cheerful day from night ! O Father ! touch the east, and light The light that shone when Hope was born !" DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows...