 | Elizur Wright - 1882 - 344 Seiten
...poet, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the immortal evolutionist, wrote, probably about 1760, — " Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Sans, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death and Night and... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 Seiten
...of Time; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach. Flowers of the sky, ye, too, to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the fleld. Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - 536 Seiten
...wail, The tyrant and the slave, The street, the factory, the jail, The palace — and the grave! 141. Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush,...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and chaos mingle all! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal... | |
 | 1889 - 532 Seiten
...wail, The tyrant and the slave, The street, the factory, the jail, The palace — and the grave! 141. ' Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems, systems Cíush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and chaos mingle all! Till... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 Seiten
...cars approach. And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach. Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age shall yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ;...systems crush. Headlong, extinct to one dark centre fall, And death and night and chaos mingle all, Till overhead, emerging from the storm, Primeval nature... | |
 | Sir William Peck - 1891 - 280 Seiten
...! u | u 1 1 . Scale in Kllioni of IGlel ioo Explanation of Sign it A-MhalJ. 4. Pea* tjul' JUPITER " Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field." — Erasmus Darwin. As already mentioned, this is the nearest member of the outer group of orbs, and... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 Seiten
...paragraphs, and the wonders of astronomy in one fine apostrophe, in which these couplets occur ; — " Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail...rush, Suns sink on suns and systems systems crush ; Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal nature lifts her changeful form ". There is... | |
 | 1912 - 620 Seiten
...times I repeated to myself the stately lines of the elder Darwin: Star after star from heaven's bright arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns and systems systems crush. Headlong, extinct to one dark centre fall, And night and death and chaos mingle all. Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 Seiten
...near your beamy cars approach; And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky 1 ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters...systems crush, Headlong extinct to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and chaos mingle all: Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 378 Seiten
...time ; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield. Frail...systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm. Immortal... | |
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Roll on, ye stars ! exult in youthful prime, Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time ; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield. Frail as your... 
