| Albert Gallatin Mackey - Freemasonry - 1869 - 384 pages
...design to establish a foundation for symbolism.* 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." — BRYANT. * Theologians have always given a spiritual application to the temple of Solomon, referring... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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... | |
| African Americans - 1870 - 400 pages
...spread the roof above them; ere be 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. " But time and circumstances .fcfrbacje delay. A hurried walk of an hour and a half brought ,us to... | |
| Julia Hatfield - 1870 - 252 pages
...he framed The lofiy 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. We all know this poem by heart. Some of us have even had to " parse " it ! The Child of the Forests... | |
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 658 pages
...spreail 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,...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." And notwithstanding the very considerable modern neglect and desecration of forests, we still may know... | |
| George Wharton James - Conduct of life - 1920 - 528 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. The tree ever has been one of the greatest of symbols. The Bible almost begins with symbolic references... | |
| Education - 1894 - 474 pages
...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 silence...down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplications. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which from the stilly twilight... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...he framed The lofty vault,2 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... | |
| Charles Lathrop Pack - Trees - 1923 - 366 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. — WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. MAN owes it to himself to see that the street and roadside shade tree is... | |
| Henry John Peterson - Citizenship - 1922 - 104 pages
...Trees and Other Poemt, by Joyce Kilmer, copyright, 1914. George H. Doran Company, publishers. 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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