There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome... Voices of the True-hearted - Page 2701846 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
| Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...billows rise and sink, On the chafed ocean's side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable...At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet etoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end,... | |
| John William Carleton - 1840 - 548 pages
...billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable...wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphtrt ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest And scream among...fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou 'rt gone ; the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 556 pages
...continent is near. Laud be to God !" CHAPTER VI. "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost" BRYANT. THE two or three hours that succeeded, were hours of an extraordinary and intense interest.... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...billows rise and sink On the Chafed ocean-side 1 4 There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. 5 All day tliy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. TO A WATERFOWL. 59. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ;... | |
| American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height,...night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er... | |
| Abiel Abbot Livermore - Bible - 1841 - 362 pages
...Jesus, in his address to the Water- fowl: — " There te a Power -whose care Teaches thy way alnng that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. " Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Language and languages - 1842 - 216 pages
...rise and sink . > On the chafed ocean-side ? 'the bere is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable...shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone — tbe^byss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk tho lesson thou... | |
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