 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 lehte
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1887 - 890 lehte
...with some individual loss or grief ? Let us not look back. The distance beacons, and not in vain. " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." Only let the men of England see to it that this movement of advance, as far as they are concerned,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 lehte
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 lehte
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | 1846 - 588 lehte
...the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." The course of a pursuit so long dormant, so rapidly advancing, and so widely spreading, is a moral... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 lehte
...which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. Xot in vain the distance beacons : forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing groves of change." However much the material aspect of the world might alter, the emotions of the heart... | |
 | 1892 - 688 lehte
...may certainly be regarded as the apostle of progress, as emphatically shown in the inciting words : Forward, forward, let us range. Let the great world...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. After reading the poem in his deep monotone, be told us that he was present at the first opening of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 lehte
...Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
 | John Watkins - 1850 - 296 lehte
...Hall,' a poem crammed with such passages as these, ' A year in England is worth a cycle in Cathay' — ' Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change' — ' Slowly conies a hungry people, like a lion creeping slowly, towards one who dozes, winking, behind... | |
 | 1850 - 682 lehte
...language of the poet Laureate, — " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range 1 Let the great world spin for ever Down the ringing grooves of change ! Through the shadow of the globe, We sweep into a younger day ; Better fifty years of Europe, Than... | |
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 
