 | William Wilberforce Turner - 1860 - 376 pages
...ia 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.' " ' There ua calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low... | |
 | Charles E. Stickney - 1867 - 232 pages
...a stream— 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." Yes, reader, such is life, and before many years you and I will disappear beneath its surface and be... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pages
...— 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pages
...— 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 loUderness, — beset With tangling thorns, and treach'rous net, And prowl'd by beasts... | |
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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. 
