 Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the...  The Class Book, Etc - Page 75by John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 pages
...a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. 40 But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lab-; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, 45 And... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 334 pages
...hurries me back to despair. But the sea fowl has gone to her nest, M The beast is laid down in his lair, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place,...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. GLOSSARY. Assuage; sallies. STUDY. Recall the evidences of loneliness and homesickness in the preceding... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...In a moment I seem to be there; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But :p 5o Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place, And mercy,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pages
...me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Kvrn u and I alike — Yon, at the point of your first p There 's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And... | |
 | Henry Festing Jones - 1919 - 540 pages
...Cowper (who was a true poet). He evidently found comfort in bed. He makes Alexander Selkirk say : But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair j Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place — I quoted... | |
 | Henry Festing Jones - 1920 - 548 pages
...Cowper (who was a true poet). He evidently found comfort in bed. He makes Alexander Selkirk say : But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid...I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place — I quoted these sweet lines to iMr. Garnett the other day, but he didn't seem to think they were... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 580 pages
...a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid...mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought I Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. ON OBSEKVING SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1923 - 100 pages
...wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. "But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid...mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought I Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot." r THE ELSON READERS, BOOK FIVE 499... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...to be there; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. • Locksley Hall But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid...here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Ev'n here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There is mercy in every place ; And mercy,... | |
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