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.

Robert Montgomery Quotes

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.