 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...look'd : aside the dust-cloud roll'd — The Waster seem'd the Builder too; Up-springing from the ruin'd Old I saw the New. Twas but the ruin of the bad — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. The outworn rite, the old abuse, The pious fraud,... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Didactic fiction, American - 1847 - 294 pages
...a dream. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled — The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Upspringing from the ruined old I saw the new. ' Twas but the...ruin of the bad — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I feared, The frown... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1848 - 424 pages
...the reformer shall have attained his position, they can look about and truthfully exclaim— " T'wns but the ruin of the bad— The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whatever of good the old time had Was living gtilL" And the true reformer is superior to his Age, because,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...rolled — The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Up springing from the ruined Old I saw the New. 'T was but the ruin of the bad — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I feared ; The frown... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...looked; aside the dust cloud rolled, The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Upspringing from the ruin old I saw the new. " 'Twas but the ruin of the bad t The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whatc'er of good the old time had, Was living still. " Take heart,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 490 pages
...looked i aside the dust cloud rolled, The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Upspringing from the ruin old I saw the new, " 'Twas but the ruin of the bad, The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the'old time had, Was living still, " Take heart, the waster builds again, A charmed... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...aside the dust cloud rolled, The Waster seemed the Builder too; Upspringing from the ruin old I law the new. " 'Twas but the ruin of the bad, The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the'old time had, Was living still. " Take heart, tht waster builds again, A charmed... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...roll'd — The waster scem'd the builder too ; Upspringing from the ruin'd old, I saw the new. 'T was but the ruin of the bad — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had, Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I fear'd ; The frown... | |
 | Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858 - 124 pages
...dream. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled — The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Up springing from the ruined Old I saw the New. Twas but the ruin of the bad — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I feared ; The frown... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1854 - 400 pages
...reformer shall have attained his position, they can look about and truthfully exclaim — " 'T was but the ruin of the bad-— The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whatever of good the old time had Was living still." • And the true Reformer is superior to his age,... | |
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Twas but the ruin of the bad, — The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. 
