...Except that they had ever met, And learn'd in future to be wiser Than to neglect a good adviser. CXLI TO A WATER-FOWL WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wjong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink...

...they look for that on earth which is to bo had only in heaven, namely, perfection. Co a Muter-fotnl. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eyo Might mark thy distant flight to do thce wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure...

...our native landscapes, but nothing borrowed from books— sothing transplanted from a foreign soil.] midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? 2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the...

...changes in metre render it a dimcult but useful reading exercise. LESSON XXXIV. TO A WATER-FOWL. WHITHEE, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through the rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's1 eye Might mark thy distant...

...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While.../ Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, / Thy figure floats along. / Thou'rt...

...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /...

...mind, and a fine sense of effect in throwing its figure on the back ground of the "crimson sky," amid the pricks of nettles' But the merits which possibly have had most weight in the public estimation of the poem, are the melody...

...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended...

...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless...

...grave, so Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 1817 TO A WATERFOWL \ Whither, midst falling dew, While...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? 5 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the...