 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 3051838Full view - About this book
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has driod up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The...not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...thee' — Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they''? Thy waters wasted them while they were free', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey'...not so thou', Unchangeable', save to thy wild waves' play' — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure'' brow' — Such' . . as creation's dawn beheld', thou... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. 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 as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what arc they? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey. The stranger, slave, and savage : their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable sare to thy wild... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— ^ Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...save thee , Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay HM •'-ied up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, -nangeable save to thy wild waves' play :— Time... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,—what are they ? Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The... | |
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