 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...strong As the winds that blow you. And cheerfully to see, Success should still entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold, Virginia, Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish; And the fruitfullest soil Without your toil — Three harvests more, And grcnttr... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...strong As the winds that blow you. And cheerfully to see, Success should still entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold, Virginia, Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish; And the fruitfullest soil Without your toil — Three harvests more, And greater... | |
 | Charles Sumner - United States - 1874 - 214 pages
...ah empire meet." In similar strain Drayton, who flourished under James I., addresses Virginia : — "And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. "Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitful'st soil Without your toil Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...meet." l In similar strain, Drayton, who flourished under James the First, says of Virginia : — " And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. " Where Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fraitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879 - 294 pages
...need not fear, So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice, To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitful'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1896 - 644 pages
...not fear ! So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice, To get the pearl and gold ; And ours to hold, Virginia, Earth's only Paradise. Where Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish : And the fruitful soil ; Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 454 pages
...' In similar strain, Drayton, who flourished under James the First, says of Virginia : — • • And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. " Where Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and flsh, And the frnitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...sholes, When Eolus scowles, You need not feare, So absolute the deepe. And cheerfully at sea, Success ome: The blushing apricot and woolly peach Hang on thy walls that every child may reach. And tho When as the luscious smell Of that delicious land, Above the seas that flowes, The cleare wind throwes,... | |
 | Arthur Stanley - English poetry - 1901 - 408 pages
...need not fear, So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea Success you shall entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil Without your toil Three harvests more, All greater... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1901 - 302 pages
...need not fear, So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice To get the pearl and gold And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil Without your toil Three harvests more, All greater... | |
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And the ambitious vine Crowns with his purple mass, The cedar reaching high To kiss the sky, The cypress, pine, And useful sassafras. 
