The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth ; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth. Where stood the tower, there grows the weed ; Where stood the weed, the tower : No present hour its likeness leaves To any future hour. Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides - Page 226by Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 970 pagesFull view - About this book
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...changes that have taken place from the Heptarchy to the Tudors, — from Egbert to Henry the Eighth. " The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth;...present hour its likeness leaves To any future hour." CHAPTER X. ABER PENMAEN MAWR CONWAY LLANRWST, &C. " WHERE'ER we gaze, around, above, below, What rainbow... | |
| William Johnson Fox - Anthems - 1841 - 132 pages
...that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. I C XXXIII. THE presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth...To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth. \VTiere stood the tower, there grows the weed ; Where stood the weed, the tower ; No present hour its... | |
| English fiction - 1842 - 418 pages
...carried vou along with her, the other made it quite ungrateful not to be so carried. CHAPTER LXIV. CHANGES IN LONDON. The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the eartn; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-aiorrow birth. Where stood the tower, there grows the... | |
| Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pages
...the azure, sunlit sea ; The boatmen ply their oars, and say, Te laudamus, Domine ! CM CCCCXV. 1. EL 1 THE presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth...Today is only as the soil That gives tomorrow birth. 2 Where stood the tower, there grows the weed ; Where stood the weed, the tower ; No present hour its... | |
| Free thought - 1877 - 604 pages
...is the writing on the wall That turns the tyrant pale. — Mrs. Barbauld. 143 PERPETUAL CHANGE. CM The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth;...the soil That gives to-morrow birth. Where stood the tow'r there grow the weeds, Where grew the weeds the tow'r, No present hour its likeness leaves To... | |
| Arthur H. Elliott, Francis P. Smith, Frederick J. Harrison, W.I. Scandlin - Photography - 1898 - 504 pages
...but doomed. Several are burnt down, never to be rebuilt, illustrating " Where stood the tower, now grows the weed ; Where stood the weed, the tower....present hour its likeness leaves to any future hour." One of the photographs show a mill which was burnt down some twenty years ago, very likely never to... | |
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