...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A...

...— I stood upon the sands, alone. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. SONNET. A FAIRER face of evening cannot be : The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A...

...sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal...thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child ! dear Girl, that standest with me here ! If thou appear untouch'd with serious thought, Thy nature is not therefore...

...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. " Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly." Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are passed...

...is thus fitly described by one of the poets. 1 ' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * * * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly...

...scene is thus fitly described by one of the poets. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. * » * * The broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea." The " expansive forehead" of the great source of light and heat, sank quietly...

...in grief for her. BESSIE PARKES. AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free j The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature ia not, therefore, less divine ; Thou liest in Abraham's bosom...

...Fairy, and the flowers Hang down their heavy heads in grief for her. BESSIE AN EVENING BY THE SEA. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl ! thnt walkest with me here, If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought, Thy nature is not, therefore,...

...Love! A remarkable and sublime specimen of the Combinative we have in one of his sonnets : — " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of Leaven broods o'er the sea. Listen ; the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make...

...language of which we are comparatively ignorant, and by symbols only a few of which we can decipher. ' The gentleness of heaven is on the sea ; Listen !...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.' Science, however, is daily, by little added to little, discovering more and more of the secrets of...