No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around: The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the arme'd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 2311873Full view - About this book
| George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1843 - 300 pages
...obedience is a duty in all instances of acts, where no sin Is ingredient. — Bishop Taylor. THE NATIVITY. No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around...hung, The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blooJ, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...clouds dividing; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes an universal peace through sea and land. ain to dust. Last night, her lord was all that's good and great; A knave Unslain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not lo the armed throng ; And kings sat still wilh... | |
| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1867 - 1220 pages
...was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth begun. No war or battle sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphuug; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...wide her myrtle wand. She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle's Round, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
| Protestant association - 1844 - 420 pages
...clouds dividing ; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng. However brief may be its... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...ensucd after the battle of Actium, and the establishment of Augustus upon the throne of Rome. No war,1 or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 366 pages
...The idle spear and shield are high up hung, The trumpet speaks not to the armed throng; And kings sit still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by." All my concern is for the good of Jonathan's poor soul, which, I fear, will be puffed up beyond measure... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. eacea sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Nor war or battle's sound Was heard the world around :...hung, The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile Wood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely... | |
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