 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...— Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they*? Thy waters wasted them while they were/ree', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey' The stranger',...decay' Has dried up realms to deserts': — not so £/*««', Unchangeable', save to thy wild waves' play' — Time writes 710 wrinkle on thine azure*'... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, .Calm or convuls'd — in -breeze, or gale, or storm,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the' Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all Rave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 success. We subjoin an amusing and instructive fable...by this worthy divine : — The Chameleon. Oft has deserte : not so thou ; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play. Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee ; — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up reahus to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee ; — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,— what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror! where the ALMIGHTY'S form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where th' Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale,... | |
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Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... 
