...the desert implies a desert to which it belongs — would be an oasis, in short : — THE PRAIRIES. " These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beantiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first,...

...— ' The boundless unshorn fields, where lingers yet The beauty of the earth ere man had sinned — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my...they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if an ocean in its gentlest swell Stood still, with all its rounded billows fixed And motionless forever....

...were very much compressed at the sides. Rambling onwards in the direction of Sandusky, I now came upon the prairies. " I behold them for the first, And my...the encircling vastness. Lo ! They stretch In airy undulation far away, As if an ocean in its gentlest swell Stood still, with all its rounded billows...

...were very much compressed at the sides. Rambling onwards in the direction of Sandusky, I now came upon the prairies. " I behold them for the first, And my...the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. 1л ! They stretch In airy undulation far away, As if an ocean in its gentlest swell Stood still, with...

...these The boundless unshorn fields, where lingers yet The beauty of the earth ere man had sinned ; The prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the delighted sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away,...

...sung the wind above; and doubly loud Shook o'er his turret-cell the thunder-cloud." The Caraair"These The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which...the speech of England has no name— The prairies." BRYANT. WHOEVER will take upon himself the trouble to run his eye over the " Tourist's Pocket Map of...

...sung the wind above ; and doubly loud Shook o'er his turret-cell the thunder-cloud." The Carmir. « These The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no Dame — The prairies." BRYANT. WHOEVER will take upon himself the trouble to run his eye over the...

...and doubly loud Shook o'er his turret-cell the thunder-cloud." The Cartair"These The unshorn 6elds, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The prairies." BBTANT. WHOEVER will take upon himself the trouble to run his eye over the " Tourist's Pocket Map of...

...and bred amid the bold mountain scenery of the North, and who now gazed upon them " for the first." "The prairies ! I behold them for the first, And my...swells, while the dilated sight Takes in th'e encircling vastnees." As I rode leisurely along upon the prairie's edge, I passed many noble farms, with their...

...here and there scattered clumps of trees. What nobleman in England has a park to be compared to it ! " These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn...beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name. Man hath no part in all this glorious work, The hand that huilt the firmament hath heaved And smoothed...