 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 270 pages
...each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing ; For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will...eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years. * * * * They chained us each to a column stone; And we were three — yet each alone ; We could not... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will...painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun to rise For years. I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, \Yhich root Of Hfe and sufferance make ics firm abode In...labours with the heaviest load. And the wolf dies in droop' d and died, And I lay living by his side. They chain'd us each to a column stone, And we were... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For iam Cullen Bryant to rise For years, — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score When my last brother... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away, 40 Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful...count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score 45 When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side. III. They chain'd us each to... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp— And in each pillar there is a ring, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks "that...day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have seen the sun to rise For years—I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score When my... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...painful to those eyes, Which have not seen the sun to rise For years—I cannot count them o'er, [ lost their long and heavy score When my last brother...by his side. Ш. They chain'd us each to a column stone, And we were three—yet each alone : Wo could not move a single pace. We could not see each... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 pages
...each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will...brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side. They chain'd us each to a column stone, And we were three — yet, each alone ; We could not move a... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain With marks that will...lost their long and heavy score When my last brother drooped and died, And I lay living by his side. It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For in those self Hold converse ; grow familiar, day by day, With those eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er ; I lost their... | |
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And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left: Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp: And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing! For in these... 
