 O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape...  Science - Page 121edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...ensue Desire of nearness doubly sweet ; And unto meeting when we meet, Delight a hundred- fold accrue. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For though my lips may breathe... | |
 | James Tunstall - 1876 - 536 pages
...giving us some idea of the giant scale on which Nature perfo1ms the excavator's work : " The hills arc shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." TENNYSON. Archaeologists, who are interested in the times, which geologists deem modern, will find... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1877 - 634 pages
...been a view of great loveliness, which only the toil of the geologist can even faintly reproduce. " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. " There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O Earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1877 - 226 pages
...long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they now From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. And if one thought may come more prominently forward than another amidst studies of this nature, it... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
 | Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club - 1880 - 694 pages
...changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, hath been The silence of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go." The Secretary read a communication from Mr. HM Ami, entitled : " Notes on an exposure of the Potsdam Formation... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...ensue Desire of nearness doublv sweet ; And unto meeting when we meet, Delight a hundred-fold accrue. 2 But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
 | New truth - 1880 - 386 pages
...another cycle of change affecting the land itself, for the land is almost as unstable as the sea : — " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." Every raindrop which soaks into the clods, every runnel which trickles through the soil, every brook... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1880 - 360 pages
...of the force of the Creative impulse, and ever tending towards the production of new phases of life. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go. There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou aeen ! There, where the long... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1881 - 426 pages
...changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." In Memoriam, cxxi. Turn next to the opposite side of the globe. Southeast of Africa is a group of islands... | |
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