| Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 ページ
...the hours thy day may number : Christian life 's an earnest thing. — Monseii. A NAME IN THE SAND ALONE I walked the ocean strand, A pearly shell was...in my hand, — I stooped and wrote upon the sand M name, the year, the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind l cast,A wave... | |
| 1881 - 300 ページ
...south-east of Palestine. Nain, a small village in Galilee, now WHITING ON SAND. WRITING ON SAND. 1. ALONE I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was...came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away. 2. And so, 'methought, 'twill shortly be With every trace on earth of me : A wave from dark 'Oblivion's... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 ページ
...return; In Wisdom's ear thy blithest strains, O Nature, seem to mourn. JOHN K.EUI.I A NAME IN THE SAND. r And so, methought, 't will shortly be \Vi h every mark on earth from me ; A wave of dark oblivion's... | |
| 1882 - 284 ページ
...the cottage roof, again I heard the soothing summer rain. JT TROWBRIDGK. A NAME IN THE SAND. A LONE I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my...cast: A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my Imes away. And so, methought, 'twill shortly be With every mark on earth from me : A wave of dark Oblivion's... | |
| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1882 - 262 ページ
...king, As you shall plainly read. 128 Old Ballad. A NAME IN THE SAND. ALONE I walked the ocean-strand; A pearly shell was in my hand ; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name—the year—the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast: A wave... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 ページ
...Judge will Iw iny friend ; It is uiy Father calls — pale clay farewell 1 A NAME IN THE SAND. AI.OXK I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand: I stooped anil wrote upon the sand My name — -the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1882 - 206 ページ
...the cold sea, Thy tribute wave deliver : No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. 3. Alone I walked the ocean strand ; A pearly shell was in my hand. 4. No mate, no comrade, Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide moor, The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside... | |
| Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1883 - 294 ページ
...prettiest and tenderest things ever written was " The Name in the Sand," by George D. Prentice : " Alone I walked the ocean strand, A pearly shell was...my hand, I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, year and day — As onward from the spot I haste, , One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling... | |
| Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1883 - 274 ページ
...prettiest and tenderest things ever written was " The Name in the Sand," by George D. Prentice: " AJone I walked the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand, I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name, year and day— As onward from the spot I haste, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling... | |
| 1885 - 544 ページ
...molested had made good the damage which it had sustained. JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY. A NAME IN THE SAND. A LONE I walked the ocean strand ; -*--*- A pearly shell...came rolling high and fast And washed my lines away. And so, methought, 'twill shortly be With every mark on earth from me : A wave of dark Oblivion's sea... | |
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