 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...wretch's gain ! Some vainly grapple with the burning wreck, That slowly settling, tends the depths below ; While others, maddened in life's sudden check,...upward with a dying throe, Await their dissolution, — not a sigh Disturbs the soul whose wing is quivering for the sky. The dying boy invokes his sinking... | |
 | Charles William Everest - American literature - 1860 - 484 pages
...their hair, and in life's sudden check Blaspheme their GOD, and every hope forego, Despairing, in the extremity of woe ! A few, resigned, upon the waters...— Their thoughts transferred to realms beyond the moon-lit sky ! Here struggle little ones upon the wave, And pass away with a low, dying moan ! There... | |
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Despairing in th' extremity of woe ! A few resigned upon the waters lie, And gazing upward with a dying throe, Await their dissolution drawing nigh, — Their thoughts transferred to realms beyond the distant sky. 