 | Goold Brown - 1862 - 324 pagina’s
...partner, acceded to this request. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged daysp thou lookc.sl from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court.—Ossian. Light! from whose rays all beauty springs, Darkness! whose wide-expanded wings Involve... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1863 - 504 pagina’s
...head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house Raise the song of mourning, 0 bards ! over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us : for one day we must fall." • The Hon. Mr. Dunn, Administrator of the Province in 1807, was the senior baron ; Hons. Mathew Bell,... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1865 - 354 pagina’s
...acceded to this request. The injuries we do, and those we suffer, are seldom weighed in the same balance. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days'?...and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy gmpty court. — Ossian. Light ! from whose rays all beauty springs, Darkness ! whose wide-expanded... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pagina’s
...the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Rsise the song of mourning, 0 bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before...Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days 1 Thou lookest from thy towers to day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 826 pagina’s
...rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Eaise the song of mourning, О bards, over the land o: strangers. They have but fallen before us, for one...Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days 1 Thou lockest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert come? ; it howls... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1866 - 440 pagina’s
...subject. After duly mourning the death of Moina, in Carthon, the poet consoles the living as followi : " They have but fallen, before us ; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hill, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 pagina’s
...single out the spot ; By that remembered, or with that forgot. 1808. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY.* " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet. a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howlfi in thy empty court."... | |
 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pagina’s
...of the wall waved round her head. Kaite I be song of mourning, U bards, over the hum of etrungeis. They have but fallen before us, for one day we must fall. Why doet thou build the hall, son of the winged days'/ Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pagina’s
...that, shall single out the spot ; By that remcmber'd, or with that forgot. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. ' ar tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comus, it howls in thy empty court.'—... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pagina’s
...the dwelling of Moina ; silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, O bards ! over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us ; for, one day, we must Turned Clutha by, in light stream, on the plain, From lofty walls which fell, all prone, in dust. There,... | |
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Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. 
