 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home,...  Famous American Authors - Page 148by Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1880 - 404 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped its growing shell, 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil is That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, zo Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. 4. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...his growing Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1881 - 138 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...glowing cell, Before thee lies revealed, Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year bough Where I cling. OLIVKE WEXDELL HOLMES. ODE ON...to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread its lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left...the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway thru, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for... | |
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