| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...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... | |
| American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...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... | |
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