 Britans, you stay too long ; Quickly aboard bestow you ! And with a merry gale Swell your stretched sail! With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. Your course securely steer, West-and-by-South forth keep! Rocks, Lee-shores, nor  Some Longer Elizabethan Poems - Page 398edited by - 1903 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 562 pages
...That honor still pursue Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame, Go and subdue! " Britons! you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you ! " And cheerfully at sea Success you... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...That honor still pursue Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame, Go and subdue! " Britons! you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you ! " And cheerfully at sea Success you... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...That honor still pursue, Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame, Go, and subdue. Britons, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And...sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. It was the first of January before the cliffs of England disappeared from the view of the voyagers,... | |
 | Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia - Virginia - 1885 - 216 pages
...hearts. Drayton, in his " Poly-Olbion," gave utterance to these thoughts in the words, — " Britons, you stay too long. Quickly aboard bestow you ; And,...sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you, To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. And in regions far Such... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1887 - 554 pages
...honour still pursue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurk here at home, with shame. Go, and subdue. Britons, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail, With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. Your course securely steer, West and... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...honour still pursue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurk here at home, with shame, Go, and subdue. Britons, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretcli'd sail, With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. Your course securely steer, West and... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 682 pages
...That honor still pursue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurk here at home with shame. Go and subdue. Britons, you stay too long : Quickly aboard bestow you; And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. And cheerfully at sea, Success you still... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - English poetry - 1893 - 352 pages
...Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue ; Go and subdue, Whilst loitering hinds Britons, you stay too long: . Quickly aboard bestow you, And...the winds that blow you. Your course securely steer West and by south forth keep, Rocks, leeshores nor shoals When Eolus scowls You need not fear, So absolute... | |
 | Children's literature, American - 1884 - 530 pages
...honor still pursue, Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame, Go, and subdue I • Britons, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And...gale Swell your stretched sail With vows as strong i As the winds that blow you. It was the first of January before the cliffs of England disappeared... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...centres of the English race " in America. (See Among My Books, 1st series, 239.) 1. VIRGINIA. " Britons, you stay too long; Quickly aboard bestow you; And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail; With vows as strong As the winds that blow you. And cheerfully at sea, Success you... | |
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