 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страници
...learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 страници
...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 страници
...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1843 - 424 страници
...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like...distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into... | |
 | 1843 - 418 страници
...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down... | |
 | 1849 - 660 страници
...meet is it changes should control our being, lest we rot in ease:' holds it 'better men should perish one by one, than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon :' and kindling with enthusiasm cries, ' Forward, forward let us range : let the nations spin forever... | |
 | 1887 - 890 страници
...with some individual loss or grief ? Let us not look back. The distance beacons, and not in vain. " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." Only let the men of England see to it that this movement of advance, as far as they are concerned,... | |
 | 1893 - 840 страници
...method of nature and time in emancipating man : — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not iu vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 страници
...and suffer, and sacrifice for the future. And we'feel certain thatj '. : ' ,: • * * • • • " Not in vain the distance beacons —- Forward, forward let us range. ''. Let the peopleu'spin forever . Down the ringing grooves of change — " For I doubt not through the ages One... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 страници
...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 
