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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...viewless air, It heralded its millions to their home In the dim land of dreams. Remorseless Time Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe --what power THE CLOSING YEAR. 137 Can stay him in his silent course, or melt His iron heart to pity? On, still on, He presses, and forever. The proud bird, The condor of the Andes, that can soar Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave The fury of the northern hurricane, And bathe his plumage in the thunder's home, Furls his broad wings at nightfall, and sinks down To rest upon his mountain crag, --but Time Knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, And night's deep darkness has no chain to bind His rushing pinions. Revolutions sweep O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast Of dreaming sorrow, --cities rise and sink Like bubbles on the water, --fiery isles Spring blazing from the ocean, and go back To their mysterious caverns, --mountains rear To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs, and bow Their tall heads to the plain, --new empires rise, Gathering the strength of hoary centuries, And rush down like the Alpine avalanche, Startling the nations, --and the very stars, Yon bright and burning blazonry of God, Glitter a while in their eternal depths, And, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, Shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass away To darkle in the trackless void. Yet, Time, Time, the tomb-builder, holds his fierce career, Dark, stern, all-pitiless, and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, To sit and muse, like other conquerors, Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought. George Denison Prentice. I Fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air,
| ISBN-13 | 9781150483790 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150483792 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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