| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...232 Oh ! what can sanctify the joys of home, Like hope's gay glance from ocean's troubled foam. OVr the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as fr* Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These... | |
| Thomas Fleming Day - 1911 - 602 pages
...Christmas with us is indeed a time for rejoicing, for many of our happiest hours are then spent "On 'the glad waters of the dark blue sea, our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free !" to quote Byron. Most yachtsmen in New Zealand manage to sneak off a few days if not longer... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - 1912 - 286 pages
...England, and the United States, among modern nations. Freedom loves to breathe the free air of the sea. "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free. ' ' Of this truth Spain is a most remarkable illustration. Castile and Aragon were free monarchies... | |
| 1914 - 428 pages
...path of thy departure. Sleep and death Shall not divide us long!" Percy Bysshe Shelley CORSAIRS' SONG O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These... | |
| Alfred Henry Lewis - 1914 - 328 pages
...background and his velvet cap cast as carelessly on the grass, posed as the Corsair, and recited how — O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free. Or, wearying of the heroic, he would tell of — The power of thought, the magic of the mind.... | |
| William H. Wallace - 1914 - 368 pages
...they were as happy as Byron's pirates in his Corsair as they dipped their oars in the waves and sang : "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can reach the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. O, who... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - 1917 - 364 pages
...of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? YOUNG Love of Fame, satire ii, L 113. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! BYRON... | |
| Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 pages
...conservative. 8. The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise ! 9. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear the billows foam ; Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These... | |
| Arnold Safroni-Middleton - 1919 - 304 pages
...hand arched over his blue eyes, fell into a poetic mood, as Hillary's musical voice rippled off : " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free." And when he read out the description of Medora and Conrad's sad farewell — " She rose,... | |
| Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 pages
...sc. i. O world as God has made it. All is beauty. 788. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89), The Guardian Angel. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home. 789.... | |
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