 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!  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 253by Michael Scott - 1834 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Jane Windle - Waldenses - 1850 - 322 pages
...the horizon's rim, And though to freer skies I flee, My heart swells, and my eyes are dim !" WILUS. "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...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,... | |
 | Joseph Cross - Christian biography - 1851 - 366 pages
...may not beat in; but the parapets and dome are yet to be finished. VIII. THE SAILOR'S HOME. (1845.) " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!" Byron. SCARCELY thirty years have elapsed since the attention of the Christian public was first directed... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1851 - 236 pages
...Couplet. Observe in each couplet the last syllable of each line. Tliese are said to rhyme to each other. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's /bam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway — Our flag... | |
 | Joseph Lockwood - Saint Helena - 1851 - 166 pages
...drop of eau de vie to tune them up to concert pitch. So " row, brothers row," and lel us be going " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home !" So push off, steer clear of that buoy bobbing... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - France - 1852 - 456 pages
...? The Ship in which William the Conqueror sailed to England. CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF NORMANDY. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. BlRON. 1. THE nations who successively invaded... | |
 | Mary Jane Windle - Waldenses - 1852 - 360 pages
...the horizon's rim, And though to freer skies 1 flee, My heart swells, and my eyes are dim!" WILLIS. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...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,... | |
 | Royalist - 1852 - 278 pages
...LONG TRIAL, AND LAST REWARD. CHAPTER I. WILMOT'S VOYAGE WITH RUPERT, AND THE WRECK OF THE ADMIRAL. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...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 limit to their sway;... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...their persons, in an expedition that did not possess the ordinary means of security. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Swvey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus sought his apartment, soon... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...their persons, in an expedition that did not possess the ordinary means of security. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Fur as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1852 - 538 pages
...delightful one, and the channel gave none of its usual signs of commotion, and we went skipping on, — " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our homes as free ; Far as the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Behold our empire and survey our home... | |
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