And though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent, Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content ; Yet these each other's power so strong contest, That either seems destructive... The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate: Or, Monthly Political and ... - Page 571807Full view - About this book
| William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call ; With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliff as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent — Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pages
...earnest call; With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra 's cliffs as Arno 's shelvy side ; SB And, though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent: Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
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