 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 432 pages
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — ' In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to...solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world,... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - Michigan - 1856 - 418 pages
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — 1 In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to...solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world,... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - History - 1856 - 448 pages
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — ' In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to...solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world,... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 506 pages
...conducted his canoe to leave him 313>14' 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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 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, he knelt down, , And oifered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 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 That from the stilly twilight of the place,... | |
 | Nahum Gale - Massachusetts - 1857 - 364 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back 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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back 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. Let me, then, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 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... | |
 | 1858 - 590 pages
...his canoe to leave him alone for a half-hour, ' In the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, be 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... | |
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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... 
