...hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of « Little Nell: " * Ptma. Bj Bret Harte (Boston : Osgood 4 Co. 1871), pp. 32 5. Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for...

...continue to do so. They contrast strangely with Bret Harte's beautiful lines in ' Dickens in Camp ' : 'And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." ' May I, with all loyalty to Swinburne, say that it is necessary for a person to have had a much wider...

...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall; i LONDON: The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, f ' - "Dickens In...

...listless leisure, And then, while round (hem shadows gathered f.tster, And as the firelight Jell, lie read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of...from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to <all ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While t he whole camp,...

...fierce race for wealth ; And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering...

...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Pei haps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from...

...in Camp." The rude miners around the camp-fire drop their cards as one of them draws forth a book : "And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...spray, While the whole camp with ' Nell' on English meaJOwl Wandered and lost their way. ***** " Lost is that camp, and wasted all its fire. And he who...

...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall : The pine-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with "...

...fierce race for wealth ; And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall; While the whole camp, with " Nell" on English meadows, Wandered and lost their way. And so in mountain...

...hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he rend, from clustering...