 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.  The British Essayists - Page 57edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest, in thy beauty, from the clouds, and... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...the dark sky. Not the morning advancing : Sweet winds ! bring no rnoni from the mountains on high."* again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the Ltison 130.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. 283 mountains fall : the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies; thou lookest in thy beauty, from the clouds, and... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - Great Britain - 1823 - 168 pages
...companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests : when the thunder rolls, and lightning flies : thou lookest In thy beauty, from the clouds,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself...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
...of thy course ? — 2 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 : — 3 but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. — 4 When the world... | |
 | James Nack - 1827 - 218 pages
...Rejoicest in thy course alone : The mountain oaks to time shall bow ; The mountain's selves be overthrown ; The ocean shrinks and grows again ; The moon herself is lost in heaven ; But thou the same shalt ever reign, In car of burning glory driven ! When tempests dark the world deform, When... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 316 pages
...companion of thy course? " ' The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself...brightness of thy course ! " ' When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...these, especially by anything that comes to them under the fascinating form of a new discovery." MASON. herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, — when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 pages
...these, especially by anything that comes to them under the fascinating form of a new discovery." MASON. herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever...brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, — when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds,... | |
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