| Christian - 1840 - 318 Seiten
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang 1 L. BOOK OF GEMS. 149 How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd... | |
| Christian - 1840 - 312 Seiten
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...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... | |
| C. Palfrey - 1840 - 754 Seiten
...How came the world's grey fathers forth, To watch the sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each 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... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1840 - 376 Seiten
...mountains yet untrod, Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth doliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam: Theme of primeval prophecy, Be still the prophet's theme ! The earth to... | |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1849 - 450 Seiten
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth, delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang ! Nor ever shall the muse's eye Unraptured greet thy... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 Seiten
...How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. The lark thy welcome sings, When glittering in the freshened fields The earth to thee her incense yields,... | |
| Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841 - 354 Seiten
...fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet uutrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the Bow of God. Me thinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, Unraptured... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 Seiten
...How came the world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign 1 And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang Nor ever shall the Muse's eye, Unraptured greet thy beam; Theme of primeval... | |
| Poetry, J. D. - 1842 - 410 Seiten
...How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. 7 And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 3 Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang < )n earth, delivered from the deep, And... | |
| 1833 - 310 Seiten
...sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled To bless the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's...Unraptur'd greet thy beam ; Theme of primeval prophecy, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, The lark thy welcome sings, When glittering... | |
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