 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...the sere leaves from the wood, As if a storm passed by ; Saying, ' We are twins in denth, proud eun ; e back settlements are already little attached to particular situatio ten thoueand thousand years, Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow. * * •... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...cities had no sound nor tread : And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...thy race is run, 'Tis mercy bids thee go. For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow. "What though... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...cities had no sound or tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet prophet-like that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere3 leaves from the wood, As if a storm passed by, Saying, We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...cities hud no sound nor tread; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run, "1'is Mercy bids thee go ; For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 404 pages
...cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...shook the sere leaves from the wood As if a storm passed by, Saying, We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run, "Tia Mercy... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood With dauntless...shook the sere leaves from the wood As if a storm passed by, Saying, We arc twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run, 'Tis Mercy... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. 3. Yet, prophet-like, the lone one stood, Saying, "We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run, 'T is mercy bids thee go. For thou, ten thousand thousand years, Hast seen the tide of human tears... | |
 | 1854 - 606 pages
...cities had no sound nor tread; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...thy race is run, 'Tis mercy bids thee go. For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow. What though... | |
 | 1854 - 608 pages
...plague and famine some! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread; And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run, "Pis mercy bids thee go. For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 400 pages
...plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless...death, proud Sun ! Thy face is cold, thy race is run, 'T is Mercy bids thee go : For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears,... | |
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Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with... 
