 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...sky. 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...earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sanp. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam : Theme of primeval prophecy, Be still... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pages
...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 yet untrod,...mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. ****** " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 pages
...The—Adjunct of " tempest." Examples applicable to Diagram (19) or (20), with the addition of Adjuncts. " And when its yellow lustre smiled, O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, t To bless the bow of God." " We range us in line As the voice of the trumpet is calling." " The virtue... | |
 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 430 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...three. The same that gleamed there, the day, when the family of Noah descended from the Ark, and " each mother held aloft her child to bless the bow of God." And never since that fardistant hour, either on the land or sea, in city or in solitude, hath a single... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 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 To watch thy sacred sign ! 246 Aml when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 348 pages
...sky. 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...jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the muse's eye Unraptured greet thy... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 520 pages
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. 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 ! How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirror'd in the ocean vast A... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...transcribing the latter part of them. " When o'er the green undclug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou diast * h * 1 " And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft IMT child To... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...CAMPBELL. When o'er the green undeluged earth HeavVs covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when...jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliverM from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye, Unraptured greet thy... | |
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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... 
