 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on...  The Sixth Reader - Page 360by Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1866 - 728 pages
...in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has driod up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...all save thee' — Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they''? Thy waters wasted them while they were free', And many a tyrant since'; their shores.... . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests'; in all time', *N4'tshure.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. 273 CHAPTER IX. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS. Intimate connexion between... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...intervening passage of the same tenor, the 182nd stanza concludes with the wellknown lines : I'ochaogeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. In describing the church at Aucona, Madame de Stael uses the following language. "The Catholic church... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores...Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— ^ Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now, . J Thou glorious... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pages
...changed in all save thee , Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay HM •'-ied up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, -nangeable save to thy wild waves' play :— Time... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,—what are they ? Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
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