 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
...beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 554 pages
...beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach. Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush ; Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...laws unknown ! " A Chief may fight till he is twice o'erthrowii ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield. Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush, , Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...youthful prime, Mark with bright curves the printless steps of Time ! Near and more Bear your beaming cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs...Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to Fate must yield, Fr»;lu your silken listers of the field ; Star after star, from heaven's high arch shall nun, Suns... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...with bright curves the printless steps of Time ; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, Ала lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; — Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's higli arch... | |
 | Dove - 1822 - 120 pages
...approach, And lessening orhs on lessening orhs encroach ; — ' Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heav'n's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 468 pages
...upon the intellectual universe with equal light and glory : — " Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield, Frail, as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush ; Suns sink on suns, systems systems crush ; Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...ears approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; — Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1826 - 548 pages
...upon the intellectual universe with equal light and glory : — " Flowers of the eky ! ye, too, to age must yield, Frail, as your silken sisters of the field ! ' Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush ; Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush ; Headlong, extinct,... | |
 | Horace Smith - English poetry - 1830 - 282 pages
...destruction and reproduction, he thus apostrophizes the stars : — " Flowers of the sky, ye too t Time must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field. Star after star from heaven's bright arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush ; Headlong, extinct,... | |
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Roll on, ye stars ! exult in youthful prime, Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time ; Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield. Frail as your... 
