 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...bards ! over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us: for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us : for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days" ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes*3; it howls in thy empty talions... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...bards, orer the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us : for, one day, we most fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes ; it howls on thy empty coort, and... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - Puritans - 1806 - 168 pages
...bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us: for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...Fingal'slawj were extant in hisown time. VOL. I. O us: for, one day, we must fall. Why tIo.sl1.hou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 pages
...generally concluding with an emphatic shake of the headj and a melancholy apostrophe from Qs&ian ; " Why' dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ?...to-day, yet a few years, and the blast of the desert shall come} it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy halfworn shield." We then all return... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...of mourning over " the strangers. One day we must fall ; and they have " only fallen before us. Why dost thou build the hall, " son of the winged days ! Thou lookest from thy towers " to day : soon will the blast of the desert come. It " howls in thy empty court, and whistles... | |
 | 664 pages
...the Imperial Magazine. I am, Sir, respectfully, Sec. ALEXANDER. Downpatrict, 26th May, 1821. " Why dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; — yet a few years — and the blast of the desert comes — it howls in thy empty... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1820 - 176 pages
...written beneath an Elm, in the Churchyard of Harrow on the Hill 159 POEMS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. WHY dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest from thy tower to day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes ; it howls in thy empty court. OSSIAN.... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 290 pages
...day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, sou of the winged days? thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a. few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and n liistlcs round thy half-worn shield. And " Let the glance of day brighten, Let its radiance... | |
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Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. 
