 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 gray fathers forth To watch thy...  The Edinburgh annual register - Página 3671823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1821 - 370 páginas
...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methinks, thy juhilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! • Ireland my darling— Ireland forever. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The tirst-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | 1833 - 310 páginas
...undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant, thou didst shiue, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...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 BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 páginas
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...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... | |
 | 1836 - 514 páginas
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forlh To watch thy sacred sign .' And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first mado anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first pool sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 páginas
...undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And, when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...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,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, Edward Turner - 1836 - 408 páginas
...fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet nntrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 8 Melhinks, thy jusbilee to keep, The tirst-rnade anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 360 páginas
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...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... | |
 | Gething - 1838 - 426 páginas
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey father's forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...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 Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 páginas
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign ? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the how of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang On earth, delivered from the... | |
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