 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 pages
...by way of Chicago, to Lake Michigan; and, before the end of September, all were safe in Green Bay. " 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... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 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, he knelt down, And offer' d to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | Charles Parker Ilsley - American fiction - 1861 - 446 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - 272 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... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - Witness bearing (Christianity) - 1861 - 236 pages
...them, ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather, and roll back, The sound of anthems, in the mountain wood : Amidst the cool, and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest, most solemn thanks, And supplications. " In the Druid's ritual, a symbolic meaning was attached to... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed Ihe 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 - 1862 - 276 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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 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 offcr'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - English language - 1864 - 516 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... | |
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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... 
