...plank, and continue my voyage, and if I could seize no fragment of the wreck, I would swim to them." THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one. Like an army defeated, The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ;...

...patiently the weather which Providence sent, and which was the cause of his escape. WEITTEN IN MAECH. 1. The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! 2. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the hill ;...

...lives in it is call'da farnver. Farmers spend much of their tune in tilling the fields. A MARCH NOON. The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, Are at work with 'the strongest; come some dumb thumb The oldest £^nd youngest ' Their heads never...

...arrested by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhibited in the habits of cattle: — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of...

...of thy heavenly birth, As here thy flowers and birds press on to bloom and sing. A MORNING IN MARCH. THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun ; The oldest and youngesi Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing,...

...is in my power, To do it while I can. If to be useful thus I try, I may do better by and by. APRIL. THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...never raising: There are forty feeding' like one. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And .now doth fare ill On the top of the hill; The plough-boy...

...MAGINATIO.V. XVI. WRITTEN IN MARCH, WIIIUK IlESTISO OX THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OT BROTHER'S WATER. THK Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...

...NOON. crow-ing, graz-ing, de-feat-ed, re-treat-ed, •whoop-ing, mount-ains, fount-ains, ploughboy. The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the cun. The oldest and the youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are...

...lingers in my memory, and suggests a town parallel : — " The green field sleeps in the sun : » * * » The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising : There are forty feeding like one ! " Edward Dilly, a leading spirit in the trade, has described, in a letter to Boswell, how "a meeting...

...Wordsworth's kleinem Gedichte 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, H, 110) heisst es: The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. Die bekannte Ballade 'Barbara Fritchie' von Whittier (Complete Poetical Works, Boston, 1873 p. 270)...