The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,... Biographical and Critical Miscellanies - Seite 324von William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 729 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1826 - 520 Seiten
...trained The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1825 - 492 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll hack The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1826 - 192 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in th e darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1826 - 518 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1826 - 192 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in th e darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1826 - 524 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems : in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences That, from the stilly twilight of the place... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt, down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 Seiten
...BRYANT. The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn tnanks \nd supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 290 Seiten
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And 'supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| 1834 - 332 Seiten
...this time, the rigid faith of Catholicism grew daily more powerful in this country. The convent Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. Bryant. * It appears from Gildas, one of the most ancient of the British Historians, who lived in the... | |
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