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" But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. "
The Irish Monthly - Page 42
1897
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 27

Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...Syrian town ; And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. Elsewhere we read : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd J Bat now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1868 - 986 pages
...name for despair. Writing on Dover Beach, and naturally meditating on tho sea, he thus mourns : — " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To...
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The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1

1868 - 1078 pages
...Crucified, "Thy kingdom come," there is far other hope. And what of Mr. Arnold's despair for the world ? The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 80

1869 - 898 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar Betreating to the breath Of the...
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Christus Consolator: The Pulpit in Relation to Social Life

Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 328 pages
...bring The eternal note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : " The sea of faith Was once too at the full, and round...Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the edges drear, And naked shingles of the world." In words like these there is no light for the blind...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

1870 - 590 pages
...bring The eternal note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' The sea of faith Was once too at the full, and round...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Ketreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the edges drear, And naked shingles of the world.'...
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Sermons, Volume 1

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1871 - 690 pages
...celestial oil no longer consents to burn even in the temple lamps. The sea of taith Which once was at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, Now only Itts us hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 22

1882 - 966 pages
...worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head." or, again : "... The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind, down the'vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." Meanwhile, as the old faith began to lose power,...
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