| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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...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... | |
| Garland - 1847 - 104 páginas
...material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told me why thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er...Heaven's covenant thou did'st shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet... | |
| Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 430 páginas
...living poet alluded to this sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — ' When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant...world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! 1 And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod Each mother held aloft her child,... | |
| Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 páginas
...though he had not been anointed with oil." " 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." OBs. 14.—But they may not be used when one of them would fully express the connection. EXAMPLE—"... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 páginas
...celebrated poet alluded to this sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to 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 thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1848 - 652 páginas
...yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beam« Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged...world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign I And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1848 - 438 páginas
...has Campbell alluded to this sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — " When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant...grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, ' To bless... | |
| John Cumming - 1849 - 190 páginas
...fill's! the sky, When storms prepare to part ; I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. When o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant...world's grey fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign ! How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirror'd in the ocean vast A... | |
| 1850 - 340 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... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 páginas
...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 6. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams 6. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant" thou did'st shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! 7. And when its yellow luster smiled O'er mountains yet... | |
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