 To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left...  The Percy Family: The Alps and the Rhine - Page 70by Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn, as if thy cold...those marks efface For they appeal from tyranny to God ! SECRETS. I (Christ) spoke openly ; in secret have I said nothing. John xviii. 20. Pray to thy Father... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, .Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. BYRON. of Jfrnbom. HERE are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines, That stream with gray-green mosses... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, XJntil his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. Ji' THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. i. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single... | |
 | Agnes Catlow, Maria E. Catlow - 1861 - 436 pages
...— " Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for '.twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace ; Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God !" 172 LAUSANNE. There is less of Swiss character in the large town of Lausanne than perhaps any other... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...prison is a holy place Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod, Until his very steps have left a trace By Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. ccx Lord Byron ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND 1802 Two Voices are there, one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 pages
...Chilian? Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. Ever conscious that his precious Lord was with him while in bondage, Paul made his prison a holy place,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his тегу h is the absorbing hate when warring nations meet 1 LXIV. BoBiri vard I Мяу none those marks efface I For they appeal from tyranny to God. ADVERTISEMENT.... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. LORD BYRON To the Nile It flows through old hush'd /tgypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...sod, By Bonnivard! - May none those marks efface! Byron's sonnet is characteristic of his personal outlook and poetry in that it projects liberty as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. When this poem was composed, I was not sufficiently aware of the history of Bonnivard, or I should... | |
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