 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1850 - 374 pages
...INSECT. TOIL on! toil on! ye ephemeral train, Who build on the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on I for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based...fathomless fountains lave, And your arches spring up through the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's literature - 1852 - 372 pages
...— 24 they proceed to the leeward side, where they can work in quiet, undisturbed by the agitation of the sea. When the mass has been formed to some...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race, thus boldly to rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...assigned for his mid-day station." — The Talisman, p. 8. THE CORAL INSECT. TOIL on ! toil on ! yc ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous...Toil on, — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-bas'd structures and domes of rock ; Your columns the fathomless fountains lave, And your arches... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...The light which breaketh f.om above, and makes the spirit free. THE CORAL INSECT. BY MRS. SIGOURXEY. TOIL on! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and ueacherous main ; Toil on ! for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...! How will it be when kingdoms hear The blast that wakes the dead ? MRS. HEJIANS. THE CORAL INSECT. TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye 're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn. — BRYANT. THE BEAUTIES, SUBLIMITIES, THE CORAL INSECT. Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye 're a puny race, thus boldly to rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...breast Of treasure iu the skies .' THI COBAL INSECT. Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train. Who bull. I in the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your Band-based structures and domes of rock ; Your columns the fathomless fountains lave, Aud your arches... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...peace a willing guest. And bears the promise in his breast Of treasure in the skies? THE COKAL-INSECT. Toil on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build...mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rook ; Your columns the fathomless fountains lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ;... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...murtcata. 4. I'mitet claoaria. 5. CarynphyUia fnfthrfala. 6. Omlina hirtella. 1. TOIL on! toil on! yc ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous...lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave ; Ye're a puny race thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. 2. Ye bind the deep with... | |
 | William J. Barbee - Bible and geology - 1861 - 432 pages
...bunch of grass on the top; and when fully opened, like the hat covered over with grass and flowers. " Toil on, toil on! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main; Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean is sealed, and the surge a stone." MRS. SIQOCKNET.... | |
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TOIL on ! toil on ! ye ephemeral train, Who build in the tossing and treacherous main ; Toil on, — for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock ; Your columns the fathomless fountains... 
