 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, the battlement and fosse, And many a darksome slaves and sandal I'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley (lew, Higher and higher rose to view... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 690 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view, The Castle,... | |
 | William Bright - 1878 - 540 pages
...towards the south it has a small town, with a church and castle,' &c. Comp. Marmion, c. a : — • For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to tsle.' See Raine, i. 19: 'Twice a day did a belt of living water encircle that little sanctuary ; and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain: For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...way; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The castle... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1878 - 208 pages
...'The Conversion of the Celts,' p. 61. 2 Bede, ' HE,' iii. 3. Comp. Scott's ' Marmion,' canto ii. " For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way; Twice ev'ry day the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace." here he built his first humble... | |
 | Ossory archaeological society - 1879 - 548 pages
...and twice again is encircled by the sea, according to the ebb and flow of the tide : — " Dry shod, o'er sands, twice every day The pilgrims to the shrine...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace." In this island-sanctuary St. Aidan was enabled amid his episcopal cares to cultivate that retirement... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1879 - 376 pages
...reach the Holy Island's bay. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain ; For with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod o'er sands twice every dny The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandalled... | |
 | William Forwell - 1879 - 234 pages
...worship here, calling up stories twelve centuries old of mighty men of God! " For, with the ebb and flow, its style Varies from continent to isle; Dryshod o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrim to the shrine finds way; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandaDed feet the trace."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 pages
...the swelling ocean frown ; Then from the coast they bore away, And reached the Holy Island's bay. IX. For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The castle... | |
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The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface... 
