 Day was breaking When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chaunt Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly...  Melanie and Other Poems - Seite 81von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1837 - 242 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Septimus Sears - 1866 - 756 Seiten
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burnt with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof, Like an articulate...and there alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon stood. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles : and he rose up, Struggling... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1856 - 382 Seiten
...— And Helon was a leper ! Day was breaking, Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...wail, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Hclon knelt. The echoes of the .melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 Seiten
...scaites, And from their edges grew the rank white hair ; And Helon was a leper ! 6. . Day was breaking, Like an articulate wail ; and there, alone, Wasted...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb ;... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 Seiten
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Day was breaking Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 Seiten
...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like...leper's garb, And with the sackcloth round him, and his Up Hid in a loathsome covering, stood still, Waiting to hear his doom : — " Depart ! depart, O child... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 Seiten
...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like...wail ; and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helen knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling... | |
 | 1864 - 428 Seiten
...holy priest of GOD. The incense-lamp Burned with a straggling light, and a low chant Swelled though the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail...rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bowed down his Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb ; And, with the sackcloth... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1866 - 390 Seiten
...— And Helon was a leper ! Day was breaking, Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...wail, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Ilelon knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 Seiten
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1867 - 548 Seiten
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Bnrn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb,... | |
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