 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pages
...shapeless breach, his stream resounds, As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep-recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening...rising mists and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding, low'rs. Still through the gap the struggling river toils, And still below, the horrid... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 208 pages
...through a shapeless breach his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the...whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear astonished rends. Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern wide surrounding... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1879 - 566 pages
...shapeless breach, his stream resounds, As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep-recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening...rends. Dim seen through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, lowers. Still, through the gap the struggling river toils,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 328 pages
...shapeless breach, his stream resounds, As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep-recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, through rising mists, and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1881 - 272 pages
...its descent, in a sheet of spray some 200 feet in height, into a deep linn, surrounded by rocks. " Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear astonished rends, Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding... | |
 | David MacBrayne (ltd.) - 1882 - 150 pages
...through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the...rends. Dim seen through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding, lowers ; Still through the gap the struggling river toils,... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - 1883 - 330 pages
...Where thro' a shapeless breach his stream resounds, As high in air the bursting torrente flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below. Prone down the rock the...descends. And viewless echo's ear, astonish'd, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding, lowers ; Still... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 290 pages
...Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the...whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, through rising mists and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide surrounding... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 pages
...shapeless breach, his stream resounds, As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep-recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astouish'd, rends. Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding,... | |
 | Collins William sons and co, ltd - 1885 - 308 pages
...vapour-producing fall." 13. Robert Burns, in a description of these famous falls, has written as follows : — " Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear astonished rends. Dim seen, through rising mists and ceaseless showers, The heavy cavern wide, surrounding... | |
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Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising... 
