 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 pages
...languishingly sweet ; O'er every hedge the wanton woodbine roves, And Autums ripens m the summer's ray. — 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, Deecend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1924 - 252 pages
...wrote with such skill, managing to blend magniloquence of diction with a fine melancholy of cadence : 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... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...makes The country flourish, and the city smile ! Thomson. 3. What does not fade? Thetowers that longhad stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds,...destroyer, Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend ; the Babylonian spires are sunk ; A chain, Rome,... | |
 | Kevin White - 2004 - 342 pages
...these changes and doubt of the attributes of that Deity to whom they owe their origin. <{ What tlocs not fade? the tower that long had stood The crush...slow, but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruin o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk... | |
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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. 
