 | 1832 - 590 pages
...is a sea, — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness, — beset With tangling thorns, and treach'rous net, And prowl'd by beasts of... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...is a sea — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure ! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness — beset With tangling thorns, and treach'rous net, And prowl'd by beasts of... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...sea— how fair its face, Ilow smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its ranopv how pure ! But rocks neiow, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness — heset With tangling therns, and treach'rous nrr And orowl'd hy heasts of prey.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pages
...is a sea,—how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. 2 Life is a wilderness,—beset With tangling thorns, and treach'rous net, And prowl 'd by beasts of... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...is a sea — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure ! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness — beset With tangling thorns, and treaeh'rous net, And prowl d by beasts of... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...is a sea, — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. 2 Life is a wilderness, — beset One path alone conducts aright, One narrow path, with little light;... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...is a sea, — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. 2 Life is a wilderness, — beset One path alone conducts aright, One narrow path, with little light;... | |
 | 1843 - 404 pages
...is a sea — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure ! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, ,o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness — beset With tangling thorns, and treach'rous net, And prowl'd by beasts of... | |
 | Frederick A. Moore - 1850 - 330 pages
...is a sea — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure ! But rock* below — and tempests sleep Insidious o'er the glassy...youth, we look forward to the time when life shall asSiTO THE YOUNG. surac a deeper significance, and become a scene of earnest toil and effort. Until... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1851 - 398 pages
...a sea — how fair its face ! How smooth its dimpling waters pace ! Its canopy how pure ! But rocks below, and tempests sleep Insidious o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. Life is a wilderness — beset With tangling thorns, and treacherous net ; And prowled by beasts of... | |
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Life is a sea, — how fair its face, How smooth its dimpling waters pace, Its canopy how pure! But rocks below, and tempests sleep, Insidious, o'er the glassy deep, Nor leave an hour secure. 
