 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 sider
...day! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal : "T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming...! Now, in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my sight ! Rise ! rise ! yc wild tempests, and cover his flight ! 'T is finished. Their thunders are hushed... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 sider
...Wiz. — Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ! For, dark and despairing my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the sunset...anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold wheft he flies on his desolate path ! Now in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my sight ; Rise,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sider
...Wizard. Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal : 'Tis the sunset...for thy fugitive king. Lo! anointed by Heaven with vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now, in darkness and billows, he sweeps... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1849 - 276 sider
...proud, All plaided and plumed in their tartan array WIZARD. Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And...wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! [sight ; Now in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my Rise, rise ! ye wild tempests, and cover... | |
 | John Woolf Jordan - 1914 - 498 sider
...deduce correct conclusions with an almost prophetic insight. Like the seer in Lochiel's Warning : " Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore : and coming events cast their shadows before." His is an ideal old age. After the fever and heat of the strife in Life's battle, he now rests in his... | |
 | Bennett Jonathan Loomis - 1915 - 226 sider
...lies." And oft with zeal she speaks of Him To dwellers in Jerusalem: While they return to Bethlehem. ' 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before." —Sir Walter Scott. VISIT OF THE MAGI. Matt. 11: 1. To Bethlehem, led by His star, Came wise men,... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1915 - 472 sider
...for this purpose and I have not seen the Hamilton case for some time. The President : I might say : The sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I think we will have this question considered further. Mr. Whitelock: You will hear about it at Annapolis.... | |
 | Ralph Shirley - 1915 - 88 sider
...our own poets -)- in a couplet, the second line of which is familiar to every schoolboy, tells us : 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. The idea of both writers is the same, that in a certain sense the future is implicit in the present... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 sider
...day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 55 ick and quicker flew; They reel'd. they set, they cross 60 Behold, where he flies on his desolate path! Now in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my sight:... | |
 | 1916 - 852 sider
...in our vernacular grew out of the Scotch theory of "second sight" conferring the gift of prophecy: "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Proceedings in the House of Representatives When I first read those splendid lines as a college student... | |
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Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day ! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ! "Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 
