 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...A wish, or a thought after me? O tell me, I yet have a friend, Though ;i friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the mind : Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags lie hind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land. In a moment, I seem... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 6. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrows of light When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...thought after m«? О tell me, I yet have a friend, Though a friend I um never to see. How fleet isa glance of the mind: Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd artows of light When I think of my own native land. In a moment, 1 seem... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, VI. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...Oh ! tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. " How fleet is a glance of trie mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Reason may calm this doubtful strife, And steer thy bark thro1 various life. COTTON. 8. How fleet is the glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrow of light. COWPER. 9. Within the brain's most secret cells A certain... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...the winds and the waters; and yet we meet — meet in mind. The mind regards not space: " Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags hehind, And the swift-winged arrows of light." The lightning flashes not so rapid — the aurora horealis darts not so quick. Sitting at the open... | |
 | Child - 1850 - 72 pages
...A wish or a thought after me ? O, tell me, I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see! How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light I When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...wish or a thought after me 1 Oh ! tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. " How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...glance of the mind !«* Compared with the speed'* of its flight,0* The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light."* When I think of my own native land,"* Jn a moment0 I soem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand"* Soon hurries me back to despair."*... | |
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Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 
