 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 882 pages
...is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A 1 1» HI- ,ui ; I fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. THE RIVER OF LIFE. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages: A day to childhood... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with t That first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself... | |
 | English poetry - 1883
...the freshen'd fields The snowy mushroom springs. 40 How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, 46 As young thy beauties seem As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam: For, faithful... | |
 | Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884
...cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! 12. As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. 13For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884
...cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! 12. As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam ; 13. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale... | |
 | Charles Stanford - Baptists - 1884 - 352 pages
...long through space ; the grass is as fresh as it was before the flood ; and we say to the rainbow : 'As fresh in yon horizon -dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam.' In the sense of fresh, superb vitality, he whom the visitors to the sepulchre saw was ' a youngman.'... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, John Hogben - English poetry - 1885 - 282 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast ; O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. SONG OF THE GREEKS. AGAIN to the battle, Achaians ! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance ; Our land,... | |
 | Alpheus Baker Hervey - 1885
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. Campbell. PLUTARCH says the word Iris is from the Egyptian, and means "The Eye of Heaven." The Greeks... | |
 | Isaac Sprague - Flowers - 1885 - 82 pages
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. Campbell. PLUTARCH says the word Iris is from the Egyptian, and means "The Eye of Heaven." The Greeks... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Exell - 1885
...earth was but the shadow of God's wing sheltering them from earth's too scorching aun. " As fresh as yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." Climate-Influences ! Ver. 18, 19. (1) It is a remarkable fact that insects partake of the colours of... | |
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