![Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...](http://bks3.books.google.co.uk/books?id=iAYBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...") | Richard Edwards - 1867
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! 2. 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... | |
 | Juvenile Nonfiction - 1868 - 91 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...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb !" There are few propositions in natural philosophy more firmly and indubitably established than that... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 438 pages
...The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, the brands 15 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 438 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! 10 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 15 Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's cities... | |
 | Gems - 1871
...shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune ! 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 brand.Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some; Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 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...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb 1 ( Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, . That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1884
...cities had no sound or tread, And ships were drifting with the dead, To shores where ail was dumb 1 Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high That shook tho sear leaves from the wood, As if a storm passed by, Paying, " "We are twins in death, proud Sun;... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873
...behold. I Q 2 i _ As Adam saw her prime. u z N The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, H X u < £ ! 1 The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...fight the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; w H K V) a a i. i i * In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships... | |
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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. 
