 The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with...  Specimens of the Russian Poets - Page 871821 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark «*li Of this nature is indolence, a failing, I had almost said a vice, of all others the least alarming,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : — 3 but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. — 4 When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls and lightning flies; thou — 5Jookest... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 316 pages
...decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness...beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm !' ** This is the language of praise; but who can reveal to our senses the sublime influence of his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...decay with years; tue ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou ai t 830 Ogsian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flow» on the... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for everthe same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When...from the clouds ", and laughest at the storm. But to Ossiaa thou lookest3 in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more ; Whether thy yellow hair flows4 on... | |
 | Ossian - 1834 - 218 pages
...decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness...tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thon lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...decay with years : the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 2. When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies ; thou lookest in... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in the heavens ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness...course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunders roll and lightnings fly, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. 2. When the world is dark with tempests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies ; thou lookest in... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...years, ; | the ocean shrinAs, anrf grows' again ; | the moon Aerself,b is lost in heaven ; | liut thou, art for ever the same', | rejoicing in the brightness of thy course,. | 'When the world is darA with tempests', | 2when thunder rolls, and lightning flies', athou lookest in thy beauty from... | |
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