 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...embraced whole nations with its branches, and sheltered them under its leaves. — Chatliam. — Eternal spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...reason give ; And in the light of Truth thy bondman let me live. CCIX ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...spectres had return'd again, And from the grave an armed nation sprang. EB LITTON. <£ hillon. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sous to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...1571. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! i.hou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The...thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...heart— The heart which love of Thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their...with their martyrdom And Freedom's fame finds wings ou every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod, Until... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1164 pages
...him." * 'Tumi— Hworj of (Nrrui. THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. EniuuL «pint of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty...! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — be h*»rt which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy eons to fetters ore coneign'd — To... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...me live. W. Wordsworth CCIX ON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON "Tj* TERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! -Ll< Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art For there...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1864 - 466 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. BYRON. Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art^ For there...heart, — The heart which love of thee alone can bind. 1. THEY chained us each to a column stone, And we were three, — yet each alone ; "We could not move... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Digital images - 1866 - 290 pages
...example. * BOOK SECOND. " Plus in carcere spiritus acquirit, quam caro amittit." Tertullian. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind." Prisoner of ChiUan. WITHIN the deadly shadows of this enormous palisade were assembled and confined... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1866 - 320 pages
...fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd 1 SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
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To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left... 
