 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...freckled Flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnotic'd Years The stony Tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of Vegetation,...dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder Foliage, nurs'd by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 372 pages
...flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnotic'd years The stoney tower as gray with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly...dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder foliage, nurs'd by their decay : The long-enduring ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the... | |
 | George Crabbe - City and town life - 1810 - 402 pages
...freckled Flower upon the flinty base; These all increase, till in unnotic'd Years The stoney Tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of Vegetation,...: , ^ These then dissolve to dust, and make a way • . JT For bolder Foliage, nurs'd by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...freckled Flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnotic'd Years The stony Tower as grey with Age appears ; With coats of Vegetation, thinly spread, Coat above coat, the Laving on the Dead : These then dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder Foliage, nurs'd by their... | |
 | Nathaniel John Winch - Phytogeography - 1819 - 60 pages
...freckled Flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony Tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of Vegetation,...dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder Foliage nurs'd by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die, and depose their dust upon the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 pages
...freckled Flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnotic'd Years The stony Tower as grey with Age appears ; With coats of Vegetation,...dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder Foliage, nurs'd by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1823 - 450 pages
...freckled flower upon the flinty base; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as gray with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly...make a way For bolder foliage, nursed by their decay : The long-enduring figrns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the wall ; Where the wing'd... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1823 - 452 pages
...freckled flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as gray with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly spread, Coat above coat, the living on die dead : These then dissolve to dust, and make a way ' For bolder foliage, nursed by their decay... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...The freckled flower upon the flinty base; These all Increase, till In unnoticed yean The stony tower as grey with age appears . With coats of vegetation,...make a way For bolder foliage, nursed by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in tune will all Die and depose their dust upon the wall; Where the wing'd... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...freckled flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as gray with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly...make a way For bolder foliage, nursed by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the wall ; Where the wing'd... | |
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And spread th' enduring foliage ; — then we trace The freckled flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly spread, Coat above coat, the living... 
