 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...LESSON UV* THE LAST MAN. CAMPBELL. 1. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,— The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality!...sweep Adown the gulf of time! I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold. As Adam saw her prime! 2. The sun's eye had a sickly glare,—... | |
 | Gems - 1871 - 280 pages
...at last. THE CHRISTIAN YEAR. €ju Xnst ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality...sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of time. I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1871 - 498 pages
...first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality!...sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality...That 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Victor Meunier - Invertebrates, Fossil - 1872 - 344 pages
...unshaken amid the ruins of a world. " I had a vision in my sleep," exclaims the poet Campbell, — " That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf...mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw its prime." Such a conception is altogether fanciful and untrue, however it may impose upon the imagination.... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...gloom, — The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume I saw a vision in my sleep Tli.it gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mold That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime 1 The sun's eye had a sickly glare,... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 340 pages
...of the club ; and thus, as far as his own clique is concerned, he finds himself virtually alone. " The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of pleasures were Around that lonely man." And he felt truly miserable and out of spirits, as he longed... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - English poetry - 1873 - 262 pages
...Sa/iapTa Kat TO ^>tXoTi/>iov THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! MORTALIUM SUPERSTES. Fas daedalae telluris imagines, ipsum tenebris fas Hyperiona marcere : sic demum... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...with a superb disregard to the tenor of Scripture. Campbell saw a vision in his sleep, that gave his spirit strength to sweep adown the gulf of Time :...sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons jot nations were Around that lonely man," who is pictured as standing prophet-like, with dauntless... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...a g £ i; J iJHSRul The Sun himself must die, H tc 5 ° Before this mortal shall assume i ft. 0 S i Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That...my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! M h, 3 •f. a H N I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold. I Q 2 i _ As... | |
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All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's... 
