 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 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...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... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 8. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem...delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. SCENE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. 165 9. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam ; Theme of... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 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,... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...the great undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers ftrth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Bach mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep, The first-made... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 312 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...delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 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...Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1840 - 376 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...its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the... | |
 | C. Palfrey - Liberalism (Religion) - 1840 - 754 pages
...undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant, them didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth, To watch the sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. The spirit that prompted the mother, in the lesson she taught her child,—that spirit which causes... | |
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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... 
