 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905
...still the poet's theme ! How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." And one of his latest poems, The Dead Eagle, written at Oran in Africa, bears witness to the same,... | |
 | Georg Brandes - Lake poets - 1906
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." And one of his latest poems, The Dead Eagle, written at Oran in Africa, bears witness to the same,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 644 pages
...in hues of ancient promise there imprest, frail in its date, eterualin its meaning. — CT Tnntei: knowledge is hurtful to him who bas not honesty and...Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tr Campbell. That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens !—... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 644 pages
...in its date, eternal in its meaning. — С. Т. Turner. Faithful to its sacred page, heaven Htill rebuilds thy span, nor lets the type grow pale with age, that first spoke peace to man.— Campbell. That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens !—... | |
 | American poetry - 1915 - 3742 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. Thomas Campbell [1777-1844] GREEN THINGS GROWING MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovcsome thing, God wot! Rose... | |
 | 1872
...of us to place our trust in the everlasting covenant, of which the rainbow is still the emblem ? ' For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man.' Sunshine and rain are both needed to form the glorious rainbow ; so to make us heirs of the promise... | |
 | Children's stories, English - 1873
...bless the bow of God. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh...the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to His sacred page, God still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 4009 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...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam: i For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span ; Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1861
...mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, towor, and town, Or mirror'd in tho ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. As fresh in yon...horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the caglo from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922
...in the freshen'd fields, The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast A thousand...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that... | |
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O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven... 
