 CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends.  Essays in Astronomy - Page 921900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 258 pages
...grain of sand that runs, And every span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, CXVIII. CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 382 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...repose, To my young bride and me, Mary ! Sir Walter Scott «43 Born 1799 CONTEMPLATE ALL THIS WORK Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...of the suns. cxvi 11, 12. 1850-51. The dear, dear voice that I have known Will speak. CXVII CXVIII Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Richard Buckley Litchfield - 1903 - 320 pages
...must have been written after the " Origin," but it was not so. The wonderful stan2as beginning : " Contemplate all this work of time, The giant labouring in his youth," and ending with " Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die," as well as the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...wakens too ; and my regret Becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. 20 CXVIII Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 280 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. cxvn CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1907 - 404 pages
...Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? "Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; "But trust that those we call... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 610 pages
...span of shade that steals, And every kiss of toothed wheels, And all the courses of the suns. CXVIII. CONTEMPLATE all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime; But trust that those we call the... | |
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