Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race.
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race.
Across its entire face it was dripping; a thousand little rills and waterfalls ate into it, and over it swept a cool, dank breath.
But now the hillsides were growing bare, rills gashed the sloping snow-fields, the upper gullies began to rumble to avalanches--forerunners of the process that would strip the earth of snow and ice and free the river in all its fury.
Despite the utmost care, we wounded the comb so that little rills of the golden liquid issued from the root of the tree and trickled down the hill.
Though there was much refuse honey in the old stub, and though little golden rills trickled down the hill from it, and the near branches and saplings were besmeared with it where we wiped our murderous hands, yet not a drop was wasted.
Our dirty, torn old net is suddenly turned to a web of gold, and as we lift it from the water heavy rills of molten metal seem to flow down its sides and collect in a glowing mass at the bottom.
The practice in San Bernardino is to irrigate entirely by running water in rills between the rows of plants.
Our arteries are very sluices, through which an incredible amount of confluent rills unite to rush, the drainage of the whole social country-side.
The deer were bounding, grouse were booming, rills were rushing--all things were full of noisy gladness.
There lie broad acres laced with rills And gemmed with lake and pond Behind a wave of wooded hills And mountain peaks beyond.
The rills That feed thee rise among the storied rocks Where Freedom built her battle-tower.
Of grottoes in the far dim woods, Of pools moss-rimmed and deep, From whose embrace the little rills In daring venture creep.
Ye cliffs and glens and laughing rills That sing unconscious hymns of praise!
Then sing aloud the gushing rills And the full springs, from frosts set free, That, brightly leaping down the hills, Are just sent out to meet the sea.
The tiny mountain paths had, many of them, by this time become rills and torrents, and our horses were frequently knee-deep in water.
The rain came straight down, and bubbled in the loch; the little rills gathered force, and plashed merrily over the stones; the leaves of the trees condensed the shower into large drops, and shed them down upon me where I stood.
Flowers and rills live sunnily In gardens of my memory.
They are abundantly supplied with water, circulating in copious rills among the different fields, which are disposed in terraces one above another, faced by walls about three feet in height.
Before I left the front of the glacier, the heat of the sun having become considerable, rapid thaw had commenced; rills of water trickled down its face in every direction, and the sound of falling stones was to be heard on all sides.
Two or three little rills of water trickled across the road, but their margins had no trace of green.
Little rills of water were, at the time we passed (9-1/2 A.
As the day advanced, it was traversed by numerous rills of water, and the sound of falling stones was heard in every direction.
They saw the negro gardeners laughing among the rills of yellow water, or climbing with bare feet the wrinkled tree trunks to lop away dead branches.
The waters of its rills had whispered to her of the hidden things that lie in the breast of joy.
Then, as they turned into the shadow of the trees and began to walk between the rills of water, she added abruptly: "Father Roubier is here already, so our party is complete.
And as she sat there, while the darkness grew in the sky and spread secretly along the sandy rills among the trees, she wondered how much she held within her to give in answer to this cry to her of self-confident Nature.
As she walked towards the deepest recesses of the garden along the winding tracks between the rills she had no sensation of approaching the hidden home of the Geni of the garden.
Then sing aloud the gushing rills And the full springs, from frost set free, That, brightly leaping down the hills, Are just set out to meet the sea.
Its surface was clothed with green and on all sides fruit trees of every kind were seen: its slopes for flowers like serpents' bellies showed, and birds sang on boughs aloud and its rills in manifold runnels flowed.
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