...along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost." " He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain Highly In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright." BRYANT " To the Water-fowl."...

...sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. THE AFRICAN CHIEF Chained in the market-place he stood, A man of giant frame, Amid the gathering multitude...

...reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. 25 Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson...shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, 30 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will...

...thy way along that pathless coast" (P, 266). The speaker draws a moral from his nature experience: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, 29. In the 1825 "Lectures," Bryant declares, "Well, when we are persuaded to part with our hearth-fires,...

...William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl," 1815, 11. 29-32. The lines in the 1821 edition of Poems read: He, who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. See William Cullen Bryant. Poems. Cambridge: Printed By Milliard And Metcalf, 1821, p. 28. 7.33 my...

...him corresponds to the instinct that guides the bird, and that the Power watches over him as well: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Bryant did not invent the stanza form of "To a Waterfowl," which he found in Southey's poem, "Hope."...

...Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1 8031882) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 8.1.1 IÌRYAXT, BUILDER He who, from zone to zone. Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. — William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl" The last lines from William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl,"...

...waterfowl in a mood of joyous pensive affirmation, then the last points the pious moral (APNC i: 125): He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright. The genre extends back, of course, to the British romantics and thence to Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan...

...of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The central figure among the Transcendentalist group of philosophers,...

...form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He6 who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. 1818 This poem resembles what MH Abrams identified as "the greater romantic lyric" as practiced by...