DECK AND PORT; OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA |
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... grave . The I found the frigate nearly ready for sea . honorable secretary , as if to hasten our departure , paid us a farewell visit . We returned the compli- ment in a parting salute . We were now ready to weigh anchor and make sail ...
... grave . The I found the frigate nearly ready for sea . honorable secretary , as if to hasten our departure , paid us a farewell visit . We returned the compli- ment in a parting salute . We were now ready to weigh anchor and make sail ...
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... grave . All gather around that narrow cavern , and as the coffin rumbles down to its rest , tears from the aged and the young fall thick and fast , and each , as he returns to his home , feels that a joy has been extinguished , that a ...
... grave . All gather around that narrow cavern , and as the coffin rumbles down to its rest , tears from the aged and the young fall thick and fast , and each , as he returns to his home , feels that a joy has been extinguished , that a ...
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... graves of ages . All are hers , and all , from the stars that tremble in the blue vault of heaven to the groves of coral which wave over the pavements of the unsounded sea , feel the pulses which throb in her mighty heart . What , then ...
... graves of ages . All are hers , and all , from the stars that tremble in the blue vault of heaven to the groves of coral which wave over the pavements of the unsounded sea , feel the pulses which throb in her mighty heart . What , then ...
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... grave . And yet nine - tenths of our sailors are so inconsiderate , that if left to themselves they would exercise no precautions on the subject . This renders the most careful supervision of officers indispensable . Negligence in this ...
... grave . And yet nine - tenths of our sailors are so inconsiderate , that if left to themselves they would exercise no precautions on the subject . This renders the most careful supervision of officers indispensable . Negligence in this ...
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... grave , but she has left behind influences that will work for her . The bow is broken , but the arrow is sped and will do its office . TUESDAY , Nov. 18. Another day of light airs . Our sails hang as pertinaciously to our masts as a ...
... grave , but she has left behind influences that will work for her . The bow is broken , but the arrow is sped and will do its office . TUESDAY , Nov. 18. Another day of light airs . Our sails hang as pertinaciously to our masts as a ...
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Page 204 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 322 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Page 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.