| Commerce - 1851 - 796 pages
...language, various in lineage, extends from " the rising of the sun to the going down thereof" — to / "The continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings." It is washed by two Oceans ; she views from afar the hordes nnd tribes of Asia, "thebiith land of the... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Elocution - 1851 - 370 pages
...thee in silent dream. Take the wings Of the morning, and the Barcan desert pierce ; Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashing ; yet the dead are there ; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...slumber in its bosom. 8. Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings, — yet — the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,... | |
| George Musalas Colvocoresses - California - 1852 - 412 pages
...EARLY HISTORY OF OREGON. " Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings." NORTHWESTERN AMERICA is divided from the other portions of the Continent, by the Rocky Mountains, which... | |
| Samuel Henry Dickson - Cognition - 1852 - 356 pages
...That slumber in its bosom. Take the winga Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own das hings — yet, the dead are there ; And millions in these solitudes, since first The flight of... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Commercial products - 1853 - 616 pages
...it has ceased to be an adventure of romance, as when Irving wrote his " Astoria," to visit the spot where " Rolls the Oregon, And hears no sound save his own dashings ;" and the invitation of Humphreys is divested of all it* poetry : -" Together let na rise ; ~ Augctllcl... | |
| Joseph Warren Fabens - Voyages and travels - 1853 - 264 pages
...roar of a mighty ocean breaking on his ear, as he strays wonderingly downward towards the west, " in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings " — -words still poetic, and descriptive of what was once the fact, — or the weary and heart-sick... | |
| Fort Hill Cemetery Association - Auburn (N.Y.) - 1853 - 146 pages
...bosom. Take the wings THE DEDICATION. Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce ; Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings ; yet — the dead are there ; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flightof years began,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...slumber in its bosom. — Take the wings Of morning — and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet — the dead are there, And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...slumber in its bosom. — Take the wings Of morning — and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet — the DEAD are there, And millions, in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began,... | |
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