 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free,* And many a tyrant since ; their...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou ; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all 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 Tho stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable... | |
 | 1839 - 320 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage ; ' their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playlime writes no wrinkles on thy azure... | |
 | William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 pages
...•Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 488 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 522 pages
...shores are empires, changed in all save thee — • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...save thee : Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—...slave, or savage : their decay Has dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
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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 
