One day ! one night ! yet what a change they bring ! High in the clouds, the same sweet birds may sing : The same green leaves may rustle in the air, And the same flowers, unfold their blossoms fair : Still nature smile, unchanged in all her plan, But,... The Salamandrine; Or, Love and Immortality - Seite 18von Charles McKay - 1842 - 145 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1843 - 830 Seiten
...what a change they bring ! High in the clouds, the same sweet birds may sing: The same greeu leares may rustle in the air, And the same flowers unfold their blossoms fair : .-till nature smile, unchanged in all her plan, Hut, oh, what change may blight the soul of man !... | |
| Beatrice Alsager Jourdan - 1876 - 330 Seiten
...TINSLEY, jo, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND. 1876. (All Rights Reserved. ) MAUD LEATHWAITE. CHAPTER I. " One day — one night ! yet what a change they bring...all her plan, But, oh ! what change may blight the heart of man !" MACKAY. " FOR ever, never — never, for ever." I remember repeating those words to... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1876 - 654 Seiten
...sweet birds may sing, The same green leaves may rustle in the air, And the same flowers unfold then- blossoms fair,— Still Nature smile, unchanged in...before, But many a heart can hail its beams no more ; 'Tis but one turn of earth's incessant ball, Yet in that space what myriad hopes may fall ! What... | |
| Marie Corelli - 1900 - 366 Seiten
...expressed the melancholy transformation which one brief day may make in human destinies, thus : — One day ! one night ! yet what a change they bring...plan, But, oh, what change may blight the soul of man I The sun may rise as brightly as before, But many a heart can hail its beams no more ; Tis but one... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1843 - 838 Seiten
...faithless knight ; all is over ! and the Canto entitled llvpe and Fear finds this impressive close : — One day ! one night ! yet what a change they bring...soul of man ! The sun may rise as brightly as before, Hat many a heart can hail its beams no more: "Tis but one turn of earth's incessant ball, Yet in that... | |
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