...of the middle stanza Bryant pictures the state of the dead: Yet not to thine eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness...

...voice Mayhew's belief and the book's benign message about the process of man's life in time: . . . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness...

...Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness...

...Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness...

...Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of...

...with his share, and treads upon. The oak 30 Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, 35 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All...

...health. The poet, Bryant, closes Thanatopsis with a measured strain similar to that of Irving: Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre . . . By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his...

...dropped before the reader really grasps how little consolation it is, after all, to be told that he will "lie down / With patriarchs of the infant world -.../ The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good. ..." Indeed, the whole notion of the vocation of poetry as primarily one of consolation comes out of...

...with all our buddies of one color, brave, in peace forever. Yet not to thine eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the...

...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness...