 | Class-book - 1852
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, the brands1 Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1854 - 563 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...sound nor tread; And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 386 pages
...wan, The skeletons of nations we/e Around rthat jonely man ! Some had expired in fight, the brand* Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine...nor tread ; / And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - 1854 - 720 pages
...the barbarous heathen to make way for the chosen people of God." " Some had expired in fight, Ihe brands Still rusted in their bony hands, In plague and famine some." CAMPBELL. All wars and disasters, in those days, were thought to be preceded by some Btrange natural... | |
 | 1855
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adain saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, "With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1856 - 563 pages
...That shall Creation's death behold. As Adam saw her prime! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in fight,the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's cities had... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1856 - 300 pages
...sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan The skeletons of nations wero Around that lonely man ! Some bad expired in fight the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some 1 Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 180 pages
...shall Creation's death behold As Adam saw her prime ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan ; The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man 1 . Some had expired in fight, the brands Still rusted in their bony hands, In plague and famine... | |
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