| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 páginas
...visions yield their place To cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams). But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelnged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heav'n's cov'nant thou didst shine. How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 páginas
...When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ? And when its yellow lustre smF.cd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methinks,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 páginas
...visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have told why first thy robe of beams Was...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign ? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet... | |
| John Keble - 1842 - 332 páginas
...and all, As when our fathers walk'd abroad,* . Freed from their twelvemonths' thrall, .. .' * t * [ft When o'er the green undeluged earth, ^ Heaven's covenant thou didst shine. How came the world's gray fathers forth, • To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's... | |
| John Holland - 1843 - 402 páginas
...attentive looks watch every hour, For thy new light and trembled at each shower. — vAUGHAN. THE RAINBOW. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth, [To watch the sacred sign. CAMPBELL. We have now arrived at the period of the publication... | |
| William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 páginas
...visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled, O'er mountains yet... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 páginas
...cannot resist the temptation of transcribing the latter part of them. " When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came...fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ? " And when ita yellow lustre smi1'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow... | |
| 1844 - 320 páginas
...THE RAINBOW The Rainbow shines no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first its robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant it did shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth, To watch the... | |
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