...were young." " Yes; thou art gone ! and round me, the night iu ever nearing circle weaves her shade. 1 see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her...invade the cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with gray." As the Spanish student said : " O those were pleasant days, those college days ! I ne'er have...

...pass ? — They all are gone, and thou art gone as well l Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, l feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey ; I...

...pass? — They all are gone, and thou art gone as well! 130 Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see...brown hair sprent with grey; I feel her finger light 136 The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope,...

...modified to suit the spirit. From Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis : Yes, thou art gone, and round me too the Night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see...heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. Note how long the ear is kept waiting for the rime that comes...

...know what the usual poetic tone is toward old age, the tone of regret, or at best of resignation, — The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew The heart less bounding to emotion new. There is, to be sure, another kind of poetry of old age, the poetry of sentimental...

...are gone, and thou art gone as well ! Fes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-Hearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft...new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring agaia r And long the way appears, which seem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth...

...very volume he had given me : — " Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever neaiing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft...brown hair sprent with grey : I feel her finger light And long the way appears, which seemed so short To the unpractised eye of sanguine youth ; And high...

...gone, and thou art gone as well ! 'J» Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-Hearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft...breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sproit with gray ; 1 feel her finger light Laid pausefnlly upon life's headlong train:— The foot...

...pass ? — They all are gone, and thou art gone as well ! Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see...thin, the brown hair sprent with grey ; I feel her ringer light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train ; — The foot less prompt to meet the morning...

...pass ? — They all are gone, and thou art gone as well. 130 Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see...cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey ; 135 I feel her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train ; The foot less prompt to...