 | 1853
...accordingly, he describes his cottage-labourer closing the pleasant family intercourse on Saturday night : " Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays. * • * * * From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 480 Seiten
...blood the slipp'ry fields are dy'd, And slaughter^ heroes swell-the dreadful tide. Family devotion. Lo, kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father and the husband pray* : Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing That thus they all shall meet in future day* : There... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824
...man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great BaVlon's doom pronounc'd by Heav'n's command. XvI. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The... | |
 | 1824
...was shed ; How He , who bore in heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped, The precepts...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone in Patnua banish'd, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824
...shed ; How He, who bore in heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : •" How his first followers and servants sped, The precepts...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone inPatmo* banish 'd, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'dby... | |
 | 1824 - 226 Seiten
...and on this intimation, the family ranged themselves round the fire for the evening devotion, and " Kneeling down to heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband pray'd." It would be leading me too far from the regular course of my story to describe the various... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...man was shed ; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King The saint, the father,... | |
 | 1825
...man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Hadnot on earth whereon tolay his head ; How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...in the Sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down, to heaven's eternal King The saint,... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 160 Seiten
...man was shed ; How he, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head ; How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...in the Sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King The saint,... | |
 | ...far more congenial to our taste, to take the " big Ha' Bible," " in our house at home," and read, " How he who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stund, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command." But as we are convinced that,... | |
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Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How... 
