 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar—...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,* As men's have grown from... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...In allusion to these circumstances it was that Byron says, in one of hia sonnets, — " Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar;...'twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace, Won), as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! May none those marks efface! For they appeal... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...place, Ала thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Hutu his very steps have left a trace Torn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard !...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. I. Ыт hair is gray, but not with yean, Nor grew it white In a single night,1 As men's have grown... | |
 | Henry Maney - 1854 - 354 pages
...And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod. Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! May none...marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God." We saw those traces worn in the living rock, by the impatient footsteps of the luckless Bonnivard,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 pages
...Byron says, in one of his sonnets, — " Chillon ! thy-prison is a holy place, . *-.•$•'•&.'''' And thy sad. floor- an altar \ for 'twas trod. -•'•-" Until his very steps have left a trace, _..-:"~ •• ~f-:-r>. :• Worn, as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! May none those... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. : Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his тегу steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! ' — May... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Their cauntry conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar, — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 pages
...amazed at such indifference to suffering! Do you recall Lord Byron's On the Castle of Chilian? Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. Ever conscious that his precious Lord was with him while in bondage, Paul made his prison a holy place,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on етегу wind. Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his тегу steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By BoBiri vard I Мяу... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place And thy sad floor an altar,...marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. LORD BYRON To the Nile It flows through old hush'd /tgypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought... | |
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To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left... 
