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Distinct As The Billows, Yet One As The Sea.
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Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.
-- James Montgomery (1771-1854)
-- The Ocean, Line 54
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Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never pa
At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be....
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
-- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Little Cloud...
Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
-- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- At Home in Heave...
Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?...
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 168...
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 153...
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. -- Ecclesiastes, i, 7
Bacchus, ever fair and ever young. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Alexander's Feast, Line 54
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
-- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i...