 | 1835 - 426 lapas
...mourning habes, good night! THE CORAL INSECT. Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build on the tossing and treacherous main, Toil on, for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-hase structures and domes of rock ; Your columns the fathomless fountains lave, And your arches... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 lapas
...more deplores the past, Nor breathes that withering word — farewell. THE CORAL INSECT. BY LYDIA II. SIGOURNEY. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train,...spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 lapas
...in the mountains, because we find the mountains made of shells. LESSON XXV. The Coral Insect.—MRS. SIGOURNEY. TOIL on! toil on! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main; Toil on—for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock; And your arches... | |
 | 1833 - 578 lapas
...gallop, but resembles a pace between a limp and a canter. ' THE CORAL INsECT. ' Toil on! toil 6n ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main; Toil on,—for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock ; Your columns... | |
 | 1834 - 402 lapas
...breast, Inhales your spirit from the frost-winged gale, And freer dreams of heaven. THE CORAL INSECT. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build...spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1834 - 316 lapas
...From that far land to him ? THE CORAL INSECT. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build on the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on, for the...fathomless fountains lave, And your arches spring up through the crested wave : Ye're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear.... | |
 | 1836 - 424 lapas
...free ; All else were slaves of Satan, Sin, and Death. POLLOCK. ' THE CORAL INSECT. Toil on ! toil on I ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous...boldly to rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. VL- bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean is seal'd, and the surge a stone ; Fresh wreaths... | |
 | 1836 - 268 lapas
...them ; They are faded, and the farewell Of beauty lingers o'er them! THE CORAL INSECT. BY LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train,...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye 're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Fresh wreaths from... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 lapas
...to wash my humble shrine, And watching o'er me, no pale face but thine. DR. BIRD. THE CORAL INSECT. ToIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave; Ye 're a puny race, thus to boldly rear Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean is seal'd.... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 lapas
...the mountains made of shells. THE CORAL INSECT. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Toil OQ — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based...spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean... | |
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TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main; Toil on — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock ; Your columns the fathomless fountains... 
