 | 1821 - 712 pages
...came the world'« grey fathers forth To watch tlie sacred sign? Ao.1 when it» yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Hetbioks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth delirer'd from the deep, And the... | |
 | Cambridge univ - 1852 - 348 pages
...nitido gavisus honore1. 75 1 See Campbell's Ode to the Rainbow. "And when its yellow lustre smiled On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God." 2 — 2 Scilicet exiraio passim suffusa nitore Per lacrymas ridet tellus ; agrique cubantes, Purpureseque... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...covenant tbou didst shine, How came the word's grey fatbera-fortk To watch the sacred sign ! And when it's yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod. Each...mother held aloft her child. To bless the Bow of, God. Mi-thinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep* And the... | |
 | 1821 - 694 pages
...thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth...the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep. And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...thy robe of beams Wras woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methiuks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the... | |
 | 1821 - 766 pages
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smit'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang. On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first Poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | 1821 - 328 pages
...came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 8 Methioks, thy juhilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child And when its yellow lustre smiled To bless... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 780 pages
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...the bow of God. Methinks', thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first Poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 786 pages
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first Poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
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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 undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy... 
