| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1875 - 572 pages
...into the church during divine service. " Gay, guiltless pair. What seek ye from the fields of heaven I Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven....perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend? Cnn your pure spirits fear The God ye never could otfend ? " The words were printed precisely as they... | |
| Alfred Porter Putnam - Hymns, English - 1875 - 592 pages
...Sprague himself, may be found 1 the " Monthly Magazine," for May, 1870. f~* AY, guiltless pair, ^~^ What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgrten. Why perch ye here Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...power impressing them into her service. — Dr. Guthrie. CHUBCH — Swallows in a Gay, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to he forgiven I Why perch ye here Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...to two swallows that flew into the Chauncy Place Church during divine service.] GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no...your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of... | |
| William James Linton - African Americans - 1878 - 466 pages
...Mass : 1791— died 1875. THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS. (TO TWO SWALLOWS IN A CHURCH.) GAY, guiltless pair ! What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to lie forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...bird-song :' suggested by seeing two swallows flying into a church in Boston : — Gay, guiltless pair, what seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no...your pure spirits fear the God ye never could offend ? Ye never knew the crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, bless'd wanderers of... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...to two swallows that flew into the Chauncy Place Church during divine service.] GAY, guiltless pair, in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head...jelly. He was chubby and plump, — a right jolly ol ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...of classical English writers, and wrote for publication both prose and verse. GAY, guiltless pair, end is this ; — And then with ڇ ] ... ă "5 1881 Dodd, Mead"! Schaff Philip" Philip Schaff( ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 pages
...PLACE CHURCH DURING DIVINE SERVICE. GAT, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Yc have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven....your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep. Penance is not for you, Blessed wanderers of the... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...flew hi and perched pon the cornices. Gay, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven T Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven....Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend f Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend f Ye never knew The crimes for which we... | |
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