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 still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale... The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell - Page 101by Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sunny valley - 1881 - 112 pages
...comforting emblem of God's rich mercy in the covenant of grace." As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young its beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in its beam. For faithful to its sacred page Heaven still rebuilds that span: Nor lets the type grow pale... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 THE LAST MAN. As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to roan. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1882 - 790 pages
...girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down I As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. 1819. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1883 - 460 pages
...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...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. 290 T/iomas Campbell. • » •i THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes... | |
| English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. 40 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 in yon horizon dark, 45 As young thy beauties seem As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam: For, faithful... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 254 pages
...mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in you horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. CAMPBELL. A FIRST VISIT TO THE COUNTRY. I HAD never been farther... | |
| Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - 234 pages
...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. 13For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
| Charles Stanford - Baptists - 1884 - 360 pages
...grass is 62 FROM CALVARY TO OLIVET. as fresh as it was before the flood; and we say to the rainbow: ' As fresh in yon horizon 'dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. 1 In the sense of fresh, superb vitality, he whom the visitors to the sepulchre saw was ' a young man.'... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 280 pages
...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...when 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... | |
| Hugh Barclay - Mythology - 1884 - 114 pages
...fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spake peace to man." CAMPBELL. The important subject of the Deluge cannot be well concluded... | |
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