 | Gilbert White - 1860 - 356 Seiten
...ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your...prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! 1 The angler's May-fly, the ephemera vulgata, Linn., comes forth from its aurelia state, and emerges... | |
 | 1861 - 174 Seiten
...giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your...deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-sheltered let us stray, Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 Seiten
...giddy ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing: Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat? Whence your...deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder beech, leaf-sheltered, let us stray, Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the faded... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 Seiten
...unsubdu'd of wing: Amusive birds! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests heat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide! While deep'ninc shades obscnre the face of day To yonder hench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, 'Till blended... | |
 | 1863 - 404 Seiten
...ring, l>ash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing. Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your...baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NA r ;:RK is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shaded obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd... | |
 | Country life - 1873 - 160 Seiten
...giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your...deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-sheltered let us stray, Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 Seiten
...giddy ring, Dart round the steeple, unsubdued of wing. Amusive birds! say, where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ? Whence your...pride ; The God of nature is your secret guide! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-sheltered, let us stray, Till blended... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 Seiten
...ring, Dart round the steeple, unsubdued of wing ; Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ? Whence your...her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's pride, — The God of nature is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day,... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1874 - 540 Seiten
...beat ? Whence your return, — by such nice instinct led When spring's soft season lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide." In Entomology Mr. Barrett has been, as usual, the chief contributor. A paper on the Camberwell beauty... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 Seiten
...retreat When the frost rages and the tempests heat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, I When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head /...pride. The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, 'Till blended... | |
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Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE... 
