 | 1842 - 416 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 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
...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Quaver - 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... | |
 | Astolphe Louis L. marq. de Custine - 1844 - 582 pages
...possible. The most wonderful events that take place on its bosom leave not a trace for future ages — " Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes...no wrinkle on thine azure brow; Such as creation's divwii beheld, thou rollest now." Might it not, however, sometimes be possible to erect a naval monument... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, wbat are they ? Thy waters wasted them, while they were free, And...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts :— not so tbou— Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — 7\me writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 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...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...Thy shores are empires, chang'd 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 thy... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1845 - 240 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... | |
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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 
