| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze ean bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold...our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the seeptre all we meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in... | |
| United States. Congress - 1855 - 466 pages
...they exult in her superiority in nautical skill and enterprise. We may repair to the ocean, and " Par as the breeze can bear the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home;" These arc our realms — no limit to their sway, Our jlug the sceptre — atl who meet obey. But our greatest... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 512 pages
...XIX. "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 !" The Corsair. ONE is never fully aware of the extent of the movement that agitates the bosom of the... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - 1855 - 542 pages
...blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. The next extract is a stanza of Gray's Elegy,... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the seeptre all we meet obey. Ours the wilil life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every ehange. Oh, who ean ь II ? not thon, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would iueken o'er the heaving wave... | |
| John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...you— " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls aa tree ; Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These arc our realms, no limit to our sway, Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey, Ours the wild life in... | |
| Xavier Marmier - 1856 - 376 pages
...des vagues. O'er the glad waters of the blue sea Our thoughts as boundless, and our soûls as free Far as the breeze can bear the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. Comme les intrépides pirates des plages scandinaves , qui se nommaient orgueilleusement les Siœkonunyar,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 588 pages
...XIX. •O'er the glad waters of the dark-bine 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." THE CORSAIR. ONE is never fully aware of the extent of the movement that agitates the bosom of the... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...St. 1. 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. * " Solitudinem faeiunt, — paccm appellant." Tacitus, Ayricola, cap. 30. The Corsair — Continued.... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze ean bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home ! These are our reahus, no limits to their sway — Our flag the seeptre all we meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult... | |
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