...of eau de vie to tune them up to concert pitch. So " row, brothers row," and lel us be going " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home !" So push off, steer clear of that buoy bobbing up and down there, and don't run foul of the cable...

...beat in; but the parapets and dome are yet to be finished. VIII. THE SAILOR'S HOME. (1845.) " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!" Byron. SCARCELY thirty years have elapsed since...

...sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's /bam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to our sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. The next extract .is a stanza of Gray's "Elegy,"...

...converse. Cbwper. 14. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Your thoughts as boundless, and your soul as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam Survey your empire, and behold your home. Byron. 15. O'er verdant prairie, or mountain brown, Far from the...

...horizon's rim, And though to freer skies 1 flee, My heart swells, and my eyes are dim!" WILLIS. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...sway, • Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey." BYHON. A NEAT, tight-built brig was preparing to sail from London. On her deck might have been seen...

...TRIAL, AND LAST REWARD. CHAPTER I. WILMOT'S VOYAGE WITH RUPERT, AND THE WRECK OF THE ADMIRAL. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway; Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. BYRON'S CORSAIR. Toll for<the brave !...

...Ship in which William the Conqueror sailed to England. CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF NORMANDY. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. BlRON. 1. THE nations who successively invaded southern Europe from the ninth to the twelfth centuries,...

...persons, in an expedition that did not possess the ordinary means of security. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Swvey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus sought his apartment, soon after he reached...

...persons, in an expedition that did not possess the ordinary means of security. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Fur as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON. As Columbus...

...one, and the channel gave none of its usual signs of commotion, and we went skipping on, — " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our homes as free ; Far as the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Behold our empire and survey our home...