 Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling...  Notes for Latin Lyrics - Page 213by Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 400 pages
...spared. In this regard all are dealt with alike. The same mean and contemptible inheritance awaits all. "Side by side, The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." " It is appointed unto all men once to die." Death reigns here a universal conqueror. Because all men... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 360 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices and deceives, And, sprinkled o'er her fragrant leaves,... | |
 | 1897 - 844 pages
...free To that unfathomed. boundless sea, The silent grave! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way. And trickling rill. There all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still.... | |
 | Mrs. Basil Holmes, Isabella M. Holmes - 1896 - 348 pages
...only " where the churchyard, grey with stone and green with turf, holds its century of dead," where " side by side, the poor man and the son of pride, lie calm and still." The church is grey and ivy-grown. Its broad tower, that has weathered many a storm, is half hidden... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pages
...grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave ! VI. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. x. Our cradle is the starting-place, Life is the running of the race ; We reach the goal When, in the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 454 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sous of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices and deceives, And, sprinkled o'er her fragrant leaves,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices and deceives, And, sprinkled o'er her fragrant leaves,... | |
 | Luis A. Baralt - 1899 - 280 pages
...free To that unfathomcd, boundless sea, The silent grave. Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. They all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. This world is... | |
 | Francina Scott - 1901 - 330 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. — George Manrique. FOR three weeks Johnny had gradually grown worse. His lease of life was now very... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. They all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here... | |
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