...the natural home of superstition. Perhaps there is something in their loneliness and silence — " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills," — The silence which unevitably disposes the mind to religious and dreamy earnestness, and...

...its place, creating a scene of moonlight stillness, which was suited to fix a living impression of "The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills."23 19. Kinnickinnic State Park (Wis.), County Trunk F Unusual among Wisconsin parks, Kinnickinnic...

...sky and the mountain stillness after reading for the first time these two well-known lines ? — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' The charm of the next illustration is more accurately characterised when it is asked who has...

...supplements in the most admirable way that of Wordsworth, and that after seeking with the Lake poet " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is in the lonely hills," and realising with him that it is good for one's soul to leave nature - worship...

...recurs to me. The teachers of the peasant noble, according to Wordsworth, had been, amongst others, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. The phrase exemplifies that mysterious charm with which a poet can invest the expression of...

...time away.2 Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.3 — The sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close, Heavy and wan, all whitened...

...and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead: Nor did...

...to insignificance. I thought of Wordsworth's lines : "His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." We drank tea and told stories quite late — much too late for the task at hand. The stories...

...a poem: I.ove had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers were the woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky The sleep that is among the lonely hills.47 A third caller was the scholar-wanderer Nirmal Kumar Bose, the other Indian anthropologist...

...illustrating this specially interpretative power of poetry. I will therefore cite one of these: — "The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." Two lovely lines, of a certainty. But when we are asked, "Who has not felt as though he had...