 Graze in his shadow, and his eye obey. The fens and marshes are his cool retreat, His noontide shelter from the burning heat ; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. His eye drinks Jordan up, when,...  The Eclectic Review - Page 534edited by - 1859Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...burning heat; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. His eye drinks Jordan up, when, fired with drought,...it creeps along the plain ; He sinks a river, and be thirsts agnin. Go to the Nile, and, from its frui.ful side, Cast forth thy line into the swelling... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...heat ; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. His eye drinks Jordan up, when fired with drought,...He trusts to turn its current down his throat ; In lessen' d waves it creeps along the plain : He sinks a river,1 and he thirsts again. Go to the Nile,2... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pages
...heat ; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. His eye drinks Jordan up, when, fired with drought,...its current down his throat; In lessened waves it creeje along the plain ; He sinks a river, and he thirsts again. Go to the Nile, and, from its frui-ful... | |
 | George Alexander Kohut - 1913 - 730 pages
...retreat, His noontide shelter from the burning heat; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, wrought? His eye drinks Jordan up, when, fired with drought,...the plain, He sinks a river, and he thirsts again. EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765). A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME. (From Job.) A SPIRIT pass'd before me : I beheld... | |
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