 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn,2 And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. Walter Scott. THE GLORY OF GOD IN CREATION.3 THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Return'd from cavern, cliff, and linn ', And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. Less loud the sounds of sylvan war Disturb'd the heights of Uam-Var, And rous'd the cavern, where 'tis... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1845 - 652 pages
...shouts, and the occasional screams grew fainter and fainter, till they were lost in the distance : • And silence settled , wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill.' No trace of the fight remained, but the smoke that clung in the damp, motionless air, and the dead... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its falling din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. Less loud the sounds of sylvan war Disturbed the heights of Uaiu-Var, And roused the cavern, where... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint and more faint, its failing din, Returned from cavern, clifTand linn, And silence settled wide and still On the lone wood and mighty hill." For this honorable instance of self denial we protest that Mr. Gumming is entitled to the gratitude... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Return'd from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. Less loud the sounds of sylvan war Disturb'd the heights of Uam-Var, And roused the cavern, where,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Return'd from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. IV. Less loud the sounds of silvan war Disturb'd the heights of Uam-Var, And roused the cavern, where,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Return'd from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still. On the lone wood and mighty hill. 1v. Less loud the sounds of silvan war Disturb'd the heights of Uam-Var, . j And roused the cavern,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...the level of the sea. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Retnrn'd from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. rv. Less loud the sounds of silvan war Disturb'd the heights of Uam-Var, And roused the cavern, where,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. 4 Less loud the sounds of sylvan war Disturbed the heights of Uam-Var, And roused the cavern, where... | |
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Close in her covert cowered the doe; The falcon, from her cairn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn,... 
