 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1849 - 508 pages
...isle is the home of IIH-M. And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath : And why need ye... | |
 | 1850 - 264 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There 'sa poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath. And... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant, 'neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys- yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...wrecking reef fur the gallant hark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents...man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath; And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do you plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...the billows dark The wrecking reef for the callant bark ' There are snares enough on the tented Held, 'Mid the blossomed sweets that the valleys yield ;...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up , There's a jHiisnn drop in man's pnre.-t cup ; There are foes that watch for hie cradle breath. And why need ye... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. 3. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? 4. With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-elad pole to the tropics bright ; The mermaid... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath ; And why need ye... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are Foes that watch for his cradle breath ; And why need ye... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...isle is the home of men, Aud the mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's... | |
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The sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the... 
