 NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible...  Littell's Living Age - Página 2351868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Carroll Albertson - 1890 - 328 páginas
...find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow says of birds of prey, in his Song of Hiawatha. — ''Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...plunge and follows, And a third pursues the second, Coining from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.... | |
 | 1890 - 632 páginas
...rude virtues, as men, and pay due tribut* to their unhappy fate, as a people. — SPRAGUE. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follow* ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 páginas
...Kwasind!" cried they; "that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood ! " XIX. THE GHOSTS. XEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert,...plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, doming from the invisible ether, Tirst a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 páginas
...Are all with thee, — are all with thee ! DISASTER NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry1 in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. So 2 disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions ; 1... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - 1895 - 638 páginas
...— (.Kropotkin. pp. 348-).) Longfellow testifies to similar conduct on the part of the vultures. " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions." The following account, given by Sir Samuel W. Baker, shows clearly that those who are the first to... | |
 | Jane Blackburn, Jemima Blackburn - 1895 - 388 páginas
..."Hiawatha" there is a fine description of vultures watching each other's movements with this intent. Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. Hiawatha. •Jo GREYBACKED CROW. for when once they can fly they are very difficult to get near with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1898 - 290 páginas
...some one breathing on him. Strings of Black and White Wampum Shells. ^X^NXN^>X^X XIX. THE GHOSTS. EVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert,...another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, 5 Sees the downward plunge, and follows; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1898 - 220 páginas
...Kwasind ! " cried they ; " that is Kwasind ! 120 He is gathering in his fire-wood 1 " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching 8 From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1899 - 456 páginas
...asunder, " Kwasind ! " cried they; " that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood ! " XIX THE GHOSTS NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched aiid waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1901 - 572 páginas
...our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, — are all with thee 1 DISASTER NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry * in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. So 2 disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions ; 1... | |
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