| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...saints, his eye's compassion shed, With love illumin'd high. " Fear not," he said. " Sweet innocence ! thou stranger to offence, « And inward storm ! he...involves In frowns of darkness, ever smiles on thee With kind regard. O'er thee the secret shaft That wastes at midnight, o'er th' undreaded hour Of noon,... | |
| James Fitz - Albemarle County (Va.) - 1857 - 208 pages
...day, Invoke the mountain muse to sing The mem'ry of the Cherry Spring. INNOCENCE. " Sweet Innocence, thou stranger to offence, And inward storm ! He who...involves In frowns of darkness, ever smiles on thee With kind regard. O'er thee, the secret shaft That wastes at midnight, or the undreaded hour Of noon,... | |
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