 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 460 pages
...; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws....To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...bend; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws,...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, A*d still between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws,...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 498 pages
...; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws,...its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, ..'•.-,. • . i That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 466 pages
...surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 468 pages
...surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the...melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old 1 iiiui's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 338 pages
...And still, hetween each awfnl panse, From the high vanlt an answer draws,, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody Nor doth its...entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Natnre's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thon done, frail child of clay t Thy hnmhle powers that... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...answer draws, In varied trine prolon^'d and high, That mocks the organ s melody. Nor doth its entrain o front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That nature's voice might seem to say, ' Well hast ihou done, frail child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 314 pages
...ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, -VOL. ix. G In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 410 pages
...bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws,...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
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Nature herself, it seem'd would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the... 
