 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Statl'a round. Then all unknown its columns roso, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter d in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples dcck'd By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pages
...islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 304 pages
...eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.t Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and...By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it secm'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Geology - 1876 - 568 pages
...gay That guard famed StafFa round : There, alt unknown, its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | Poetry - 1876 - 292 pages
...islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Whore dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered ' in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame 2 the temples decked By skill of earthly architect,... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd...found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd 7 in that wondrous dome, 'Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 600 pages
...and curved, and irregularly jointed. There all unknown its columns rose Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home. And weltered in that wondrous dome; Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect.... | |
 | David MacBrayne (ltd.) - 1882 - 150 pages
...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round Then all unknown its columns roee, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had...that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame, the temples deck d By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's... | |
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Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise : Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge... 
