 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 340 pages
...roof above them, — ere he 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 offer'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...roof above them,— ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication." KHYANT. IN- the twenty-seventh chapter of the Book of the P.rophet Ezekiel we have full particulars... | |
 | Periodicals - 1852 - 652 pages
...Catholic Church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half-hour, ' IN the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...solemn thanks And supplication.' At the end of the half-hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...vault, to gather and roll back FOREST HYMN. 11*8 The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid 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, Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For Jiis simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1853 - 520 pages
...who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half hour, "in the darkling wood, Amidst the coo! and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest...solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 pages
...air, earth, and water. GOD'S FIRST TEMPLES. 6. The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amid 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, 10. That, from the stilly twilight of... | |
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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, Amidst the cool and... 
