 The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns...  The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch - Page 254by George Brackenbury - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1869 - 160 pages
...as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. " Stedfast, serene, unmovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night,...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light. " The sea-bird wheeling round it with the din Of wings and winds, and solitary cries, Blinded and maddened... | |
 | James Large - 1869 - 468 pages
...splendour in its glare! Burns on for evermore that quenchless name, Shines on that inextinguishable light! Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing e'er the billowy swells, And ever joyful... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1870 - 336 pages
...fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. " Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! " ' Sail on!' it says, ' sail on, ye stately ships! And with your floating bridge the ocean span; lie... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 968 pages
...this highway of the sea. vi:i< i Ml l:\i, PROSPERITY. " Steadfast, serene, Immovable, the вате Year after year, through all the silent night, Burns...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light!'.' A few steps higher and we are in the Inntern, containing a "Fresnel" flash light of the first order,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...it fade and sinkj And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that qucnchU-s flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! It sees the ocean to its bosom clasp The rocks... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night, Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! It sees the ocean to its... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...Men have trembled for its safety; yet it still stands, a monument of engineering skill and science. It sees the ocean to its bosom clasp The rocks and sea-sand with the kiss of pease ; It sees the winds lift ocean in their grasp, And hold it up and shake it like a fleece. The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...it fade and sink; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on lor evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! It sees the ocean to its... | |
 | Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 216 pages
...fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! It sees (he ocean to its bosom clasp The rocks and sea-sand with the kiss of peace; It sees the wild winds... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 294 pages
...fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! It sees the ocean to its... | |
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