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" What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. "
Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles ... - Page 122
by Thomas Garnett - 1811
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...while cold oblivion, 'mid thy ruins laid, folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade. R. HEBF.R 969 TIME WHAT does not fade? The tower that long had stood...destroyer time, now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base ; and flinty pyramids and walls of brass descend: — the Babylonian spires are sunk; Achaia, Rome...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...following passage into Latin Hexameters : — What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. The Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and...
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The Missionary's Legacy to His Friends; Or, Glimpses of the Land of the Blessed

Matthew Baxter - 1868 - 268 pages
...finds everywhere traces of decay : — " What does not fade? The tower that long had stood The crash of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and...
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Light on Life. Essays

Robert R. Rodgers - 1875 - 266 pages
...shall not cease ;" that is, " Naught may endure but Mutability." Naturally all things pass away. " The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk. Achaia, Rome, and...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...clean before The besom of the thunder. WKITTIKK. TIME. What does not fade? The tower that long had The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG: Wrechs and Mutations of Time. Still...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...when all of these are gone. Mrs Anru JJraJjfnxi. What does not fade ? the tower, that long had stool 918. DREAMS. Causes of I TALK of And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - 1878 - 816 pages
...the soul, the regent of this world, First-born of heaven, and only less than God! [UN1vERSAL CHANGE.] What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk; Achaia, Rome, and...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - 1878 - 786 pages
...the soul, the regent of this world, First-born of heaven, and only less than God! [UNIvERSAL CHANGE.] What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires arc sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...clean before The besom of the thunder. WHITTIER. TIME. What does not fade? The tower that long had The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base, And flinty pyramids and walls of brass Descend. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG: Wrecks and Mutations of Time. Still...
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The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green

John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...laws have changed, Nestor might now the fates of Troy relate ; And Homer live immortal as his song. What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood...destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend: the Babylonian spires are sunk; 540 Achaia, Rome,...
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