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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... "
Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York: Embracing Some ... - Page 111
by Orsamus Turner - 1849 - 666 pages
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Golden Leaves from the American Poets

American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the coo) 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...
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Life-lights of song, ed. by D. Page, Volume 1; Volume 52

Life-lights - 1864 - 364 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...
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Chambers's readings in English poetry

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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...
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Memories of Merton

John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...them: ere he framed The lofty vanlt, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems: in the darkening wood Amidst the cool and silence he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication"—BRYANT. Come to the woods ; I know a solemn glade, Such as our persecuted fathers chose...
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Two Essays; I. Pencillings of Beauty in Nature and Art. II. The Magnificence ...

Edward Whitfield - 1865 - 124 pages
...he formed 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 adoration." BRYANT. To change the scene,—observe the piles of rocks whose foundations are laid in...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 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...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 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...
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Sunday readings (verses).

Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 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, he knelt down, And offer'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the...
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Readings from the Best Authors

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 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...
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Companion Poets, Volume 1

American poetry - 1869 - 310 pages
...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...
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