Robert Montgomery Quote

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.


The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control / Stops with the shore", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, stanza 179.


And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.