I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away. The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 144by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1857Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...farewell! A NAME IN THE SAXD. ALONE I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand : I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast: A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1841 - 252 pages
...grave. A NAME IN THE SAND. ALONE I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand: I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed.. One lingering look behind I cast: A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...bearing a new name," be Thy passport when time shall end ! A NAME IN THE SAND. A i .1 s • I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was in my hand :...— the year — the day. As onward from the spot I pnss'd, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And wash'd my lines away.... | |
| William Morrison Engles - English poetry - 1844 - 274 pages
...NAME IN THE SAND. GOtJLD. ALONE I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand : I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast: A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...the author, Miss HF GOULD. Alone I walked the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand : I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| 1847 - 788 pages
...THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR. Alone I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was in my band : I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day: As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| New York (N.Y.) - 1847 - 338 pages
...mortality. A Name in the Sand. ALOHF. I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was in my hand. I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look I fondly cast; A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...SAND. HANNAH P. GOULD. 1. ALONE I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was in my hand ; I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, — the year, — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One ling'ring look behind I cast ; A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
| Theology - 1848 - 876 pages
...THE NAME ON THE SAND. Alone I walked on the ocean strand— A pearly shell was in my hand ; I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day ; As onward from the spot I passed. One lingering look behind I case — A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...CXV. A NAME IN THE SAND. ALONE I walked the ocean strand ; V pearly shell was in my hand : . stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. AS onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.... | |
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