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| Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...of freedom, fought, Your manly hearts will glow, As you sweep through the deep, r ENGLISH SONGS. 71 Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain-wave, Her home is on the deep : With thunder from her native oak, She quells the floods below,... | |
| David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...participation in the contest with Ui.it. nation, whose bards had chaunted to her naval pride, that " Her march is o'er the mountain wave, " Her home is on the deep." Commodore Rodgers, in the frigate President, when he received the proclamation of war, called his ship's... | |
| England - 1826 - 820 pages
...steep," he says what is not perfectly true ; nor does he give a good reason for it when he adds, " her march is o'er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep." For harbours should be, and are, protected by forts ; and although it is allowable to say, that Britannia's... | |
| Scotland - 1826 - 840 pages
...steep," he says what is not perfectly true ; nor docs he give a good reason for it when he adds, " her march is o'er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep." For harbours should be, and are, protected "by forts; and although it is allowable to say, that Britannia's... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...battle rages loud and 'long, And the stormy tempests blow ! . . .,..i..i .1 Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave f Her home is on the deep ! With thunders from her native oak. She quells the floods below— As they... | |
| 1830 - 696 pages
...impregnable, forcibly brought to mind the beautiful poetry of Campbell Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. I wandered alone, along the beach, — the surf gently rose and fell at my feet — the moonlight gave... | |
| Christopher Biden - 1830 - 432 pages
...blow, While the battle rages long and loud And the stormy tempests blow. " Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below. As she sweeps thro' the deep, While... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages long and loud, And the stormy tempests blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep : With thunders from her native oak. She quells the floods... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountainwaves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below... | |
| Naval art and science - 1871 - 928 pages
...colonies, and her ships float like enchanted castles along her sea-girt shores, Well might the poet say "Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep, Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." Britain's enterprising sons have steered for India... | |
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