| Sir Edwin Arnold - 1861 - 200 psl.
...where its slayers wait." Friends and kinsmen they must all be surrendered ! Is it not said " Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again ; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 psl.
...our good, And unblest good is ill. And all is right that seems most wrong, If it be His sweet will. Like as a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encounters, Meets, touches, parts again So, tossed and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever,... | |
| 1878 - 410 psl.
...our good, And unblest good is ill, And all is right that seems most wrong, If it be His sweet will. Like as a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encounters, Meets, touches, parts again So, tossed and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever,... | |
| 1878 - 818 psl.
...cause. It piques us to know that, sixteen hundred years before our era, there was a poet who sang : " Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encounters, Meets touches parts again ; So, tossed, and drifting, ever On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and... | |
| 1882 - 736 psl.
...alive the eternal fire on the sacred hearth, whose guardian virgins are Lovr, Knowledge and Works. " Like as a plank of driftwood, Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encounters, Meetstouchesparts again ; So tossed and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and... | |
| Mrs. J. B. Rideout - 1889 - 252 psl.
...were full of life and joy, and saluted us with pleasant smiles and friendly greeting, and passed on. "Like as a plank of drift-wood, Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encounters, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, We meet, and greet, and sever, Parting... | |
| Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 508 psl.
...where its slayers wait.' Friends and kinsmen they must all be surrendered! Is it not said ' Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets touches parts again ; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting... | |
| Belle Kearney - 1900 - 292 psl.
...been elected. Subsequent events proved the wisdom of my determination. CHAPTER XXI ON THE CONTINENT Like as a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main Another plank, encounters, meets, touches, parts again; So, tossed and drifting ever On life's unresting sea Men meet and greet and sever Parting... | |
| Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1900 - 510 psl.
...where its slayers wait.' Friends and kinsmen they must all be surrendered! Is it not said ' Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main. Another plank encountered. Meets touches parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea,... | |
| 1899 - 510 psl.
...where its slayers wait." Friends and kinsmen they must all be surrendered ! Is it not said ' Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets touches parts again ; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting... | |
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