 | 1858 - 248 էջ
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858
...that two at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea, Yet ye are seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be ? Then did the little maid reply,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door. And they are side by side. My stockings... | |
 | 1858 - 216 էջ
...seven ! — I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." Then did the little maid reply, " Seven hoys and girls are we ; Two of us in the churchyard lie,...Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied, " Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings... | |
 | 1903
...life and death that seems to him a marvellous thing. In vain he attempts to put the question : — You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid Then ye are only five. The child finds no metaphysical difficulties in the fact of her own life, and no matter for dubious... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - 1979 - 480 էջ
...to sea. Yet ye are seven. I pray you tell, Sweet maid, how this may be." 2 Then did the little girl reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in..."Their graves are green, they may be seen," The little maid replied. Twelve steps or more from mother's door, And they are side by side. "My stockings there... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 177 էջ
...perspective, the traveler's explanation of his calculation sounds like a crude enough empirical distinction. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are...are in the church-yard laid, Then ye are only five." But his insistence upon counting what is there, what one can point to, and not to count what isn't,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 587 էջ
...Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell, Sweet Maid, how this may be.' Then did the little Maid reply, 30 'Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard...'Their graves are green, they may be seen,' The little Maid replied, 'Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, 40 And they are side by side. 'My stockings... | |
 | McGuffey - 1997 - 208 էջ
...the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother." 6. "You say that two at Conway dwell, 7. Then did the little maid reply, " Seven boys and girls...the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree." 8. "You run about, my little maid, Your limbs, they are alive; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - 1999 - 238 էջ
...and that of her dead siblings is staked upon the contrast between her movement and their stasis: ' "You run about, my little maid, / Your limbs they...in the church-yard laid, / Then ye are only five" ' (lines 33-6). By contrast, 'Faith and Despondency' opens with the father compelling his child's stasis,... | |
 | Peter De Bolla - 2003 - 157 էջ
...that their distinct worlds fit snugly together, as if this were a matter of getting addition right: if two are in the church-yard laid, then ye are only five; as if in telling —both counting and re-counting —the girl would undergo her talking cure. But,... | |
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Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother. 
