 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pàgines
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pàgines
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1843 - 418 pàgines
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pàgines
...with some individual loss or grief ? Let us not look back. The distance beacons, and not in vain. " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." Only let the men of England see to it that this movement of advance, as far as they are concerned,... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pàgines
...should perish one by one Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon 1 Not iu vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pàgines
...and suffer, and sacrifice for the future. And we'feel certain thatj '. : ' ,: • * * • • • " Not in vain the distance beacons —- Forward, forward let us range. ''. Let the peopleu'spin forever . Down the ringing grooves of change — " For I doubt not through the ages One... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pàgines
...better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1846 - 592 pàgines
...increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Not in rain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range....spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.' The course of a pursuit so long dormant, so rapidly advancing, and so widely spreading, is a moral... | |
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 
