...thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when gray hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. 1806. — 1807. WHO is the happy Warrior?...

...Massachusetts Bay. He was the ancestor of the venerable scholar, statesman, orator, public servant, who — "In an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night," — is the living object of our reverent and grateful homage. John Winthrop records an incident in...

...thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Sir Walter Scott's note to this song is as follows — The last verse...

...mighty sepulchre.— Bryant. I feel like one Who treads alone Some ftonswet-hall deserted.— Moon. But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave.— Wordsworth. Had I but serv'A my God with half the zeal I serv'A my...

...conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. Tully. (OLD,) BEAUTY OP. But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Wordsworth. (OLD,) BLESSEDNESS OP. How blest is he who crowns, in shades...

...thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. William Wordsworth. CCLXXXIX. ON A TEAR. OH ! that the chemist's magic...

...Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee when old age is nigh A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave." Thoughts like these insured a special welcome for the Eeverend Francis...

...the winter of life need not be a crabbed, cheerless, stormy period of waiting for the inevitable, But an old age, serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. CHAPTER VI. THE BENEFITS OF SLEEP. " Man's rich restorative I his balmy...

...thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Where is the woman, recognizable as such, who will question that the...

...grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season"; also Wordsworth's lines: — But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. calls death "a harbor of refuge," portum potius paratum nobis et perfugium...