 O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven...  The Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 451821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1840 - 376 pages
...fields The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...fields, The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO 1. P. KEMBLE. PRIDE of the British stage,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Astronomy - 1840 - 444 pages
...was thus given, we may say : — " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, .*• .... I h th \ V/ ft THE RAINBOW. With this accords one of the visions with which the beloved... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 pages
...to keep, The first-made anthem rang How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. THE CAST-AWAY. Cotoper. OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic... | |
 | Henry Fitz - Sermons - 1840 - 512 pages
...Covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man." And God hath made this Bow to be, to perpetual generations, the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...fields The snowy mushroom* springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. Ittuslrations. Can all that optics teach, $c. The science of optics... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...freshen'd fields, The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast On mountain, tow'r, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms...sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heav'n still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to manCAMPBRLL.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. "How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain tower, and town, Ormirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark. As young thy beauties seem, At when the eagle from the ark Firm sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven (till... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town. Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! 12. As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young, thy beauties...the eagle from the ark, First sported in thy beam. 13. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...fields The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town; Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh as yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy... | |
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