| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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