 | Kalamazoo County (Mich.) - 1869 - 380 pages
...degrees, at length, the flames decay, Flashing now here, now there, and die away. Lo 1 now, the scene ! the whole vast plain outspread, Black as the pall that shrouds the coffined dead 1 No tree, no shrub, no living thing is seen; No blade of russet grass or springing green : Black desolation... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - Kalamazoo County (Mich.) - 1880 - 761 pages
...degrees at length the flames decay, Flashing now here, now there, and die away. Lo, now the scene ! the whole vast plain outspread Black as the pall that...green. Black desolation broods o'er all the plain, Which seems as blasted ne'er to bloom again. And yet not all, for lo ! the wondering eye Beholds a... | |
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... ends ; Then rushing on, as if with maddened ire, Laps the whole plain in one broad sheet of fire ! The plover, screaming, seeks some distant fen ; The flying deer scarce reach the wooded glen. By slow degrees at length the flames decay, Flashing now... 