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They respond From Maine to Florida, beyond The sea-walled continent's broad scope, Honor his pledge, confirm his hope.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

When our sea-walled garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds; her finest flowers choked up, Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined, Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs Swarming with caterpillars.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

To a foreign visitor the whole country seems a garden--in the words of Shakespeare--"a sea-walled garden."

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester

At length the feast was over, and Marinell was obliged to accompany his mother home, and, sore against his will, leave Florimell in her sea-walled dungeon.

From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund

There are, however, various other particulars of importance for a traveller's enjoyment, which Shakspeare's "sea-walled garden" furnishes in by far the greater abundance.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert