 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  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4981848Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...end of the stanza. Again, " 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 a tyrant since." What connection between these two facts ? " Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow, Such as creation's... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...spoils of Trafalgar. ~* Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow Such... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow Such... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Cartilage, i0j0 thou ; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play. Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow : Such... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 pages
...spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee ; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 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... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1845 - 240 pages
...cities of antiquity. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee ; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ... | |
| |
