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" 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 ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre... "
The Works of Lord Byron - Page 7
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1877 - 656 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours...slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave I Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease I Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot please....
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway, — Our flag the scepter all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still...range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. 0, who can tell ? not thon, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou,...
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The flower of the forest; or, Mary Rock, Volume 174

Percy Bolingbroke St. John - 1878 - 372 pages
...Government or not, I know not where such a consummation is to be effected. Ours was in reality here — "The wild life in tumult still to range, From toil to rest, and joy in every change." Nor were we much less piratical indeed than those in whose mouths the poet has put these words. The...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 408 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway— Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours...lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not—pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph...
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A Short English Grammar for the Use of Schools

Charles Duke Yonge - 1879 - 182 pages
...separated from it, though ever so slightly, we find the secondary form used, and not the primary one. Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range. — Byron, Corsair, i. 7. Where, though ' the wild ' agrees with ' life' as much as 4 ours,' still,...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, ed. with a critical mem. by W. M. Rossetti

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...seize a spoil No matter where— their chief's allotment this , Our flag the sceptre all who meet ohey. ihes, All flocking to moisten their exquisite throttles With a glass slumher soothes not — pleasure cannot please— Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway ; Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours...range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh I who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave ; Not thou,...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy O, who can tell ? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; Not thou,...
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Poetry of Byron, chosen by M. Arnold

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours...ease ! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot pleaseOh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide,...
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Poetry of Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 pages
...the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours...ease ! Whom slumber soothes not — pleasure cannot pleaseOh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide,...
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