 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home,...  Songs of Three Centuries - Seite 223herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 Seiten
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more 4. Thanks for the heavenly message brought to thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap,... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 Seiten
...shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed I 3. Tear after year beheld the silent toil That spread his...archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in its last-found home, and knew the old no more. 4. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 Seiten
...his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd : Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 Seiten
...his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, 4. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering Sea, Cast from her lap,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 324 Seiten
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed I Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, SI retched in his last-found home, and knew the old no imra Thanks for the heavenly message brought... | |
 | 1883 - 270 Seiten
...dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless...past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft steps its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 Seiten
...irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt' unsealed. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spreadjiis lustrous coil: Still as the spiral grew, He left the...old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 Seiten
...irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spreads his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He...in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 Seiten
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, 4. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1884 - 392 Seiten
...his growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd : Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...grew He left the past year's dwelling for the new, t Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found... | |
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