 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful...with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to an fro. But when that form of beauty meeta his sight, The trunk its undulating motion stops,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1811 - 236 pages
...! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leav'd bough Of yonder plane, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to and fro. But when that form of beauty meets his sight, The trunk its undulating motion... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucidsprings. Lo ' from his trunk upturned, aloft be flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking the broad-leaved...with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to an fro. But when that form of beauty meets his sight, The trunk its undulating motion stops,... | |
 | Arts - 1830 - 824 pages
...! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower : and now Plucking the broad-lcav'd bough Of yonder plane, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to and fro ; Hut when that form of beauty meets his sight, The trunk its undulating motion... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1832 - 392 pages
...upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower : and now, Plucking the broad-leav'd bough Of yonder plume, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He waves it to and fro."* The new-born elephant measures about thirty-five inches high ; he grows about eleven inches during... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower : and now Plucking the broad-leav'd bough Of yonder plume, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He waves it to and fro. CURSE OF KEIIAMA. The entertaining volume before mentioned observes, " immense numbers still ranging... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...Lo, from his trunk uplurn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leav'd bough Of yonder plane, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it too and fro. But when that form of beauty meets his sight. The trunk its undulating motion... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...their young under the prostrate grass. — Oriattal Sports, vol. ip 32. Lo ! from, his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,—he moves it to and fro. — XIII. p. 109. Nature has provided the elephant with means to cool... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned aloft he flings The grateful...and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plume, with waving motion slow Fanning the languid air, He waves it to and fro." SOUTHEY. This stately... | |
 | Children's literature - 1842 - 414 pages
...; THE ELEPHANT. " ON comes the Elephant, to slake His thiist at noon, in yon pellucid springs. Lo, from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful...and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plume, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He waves it to and fro " Though at one period... | |
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Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from... 
