 And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy...  The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White - Page 153by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod,...mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. ****** " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,... | |
 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — ' When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came...world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! 1 And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod Each mother held aloft her child,... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - English language - 1847 - 242 pages
...The—Adjunct of " tempest." Examples applicable to Diagram (19) or (20), with the addition of Adjuncts. " And when its yellow lustre smiled, O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, t To bless the bow of God." " We range us in line As the voice of the trumpet is calling." " The virtue... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1848 - 438 pages
...sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — " When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came...grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, ' To bless... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came...watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. Methinks... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry, English - 1865 - 604 pages
...came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child,...bless the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep The first-made anthem rang On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | 1866 - 524 pages
...sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...When, o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign ! And when...the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep; And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Hymns - 1866 - 496 pages
...came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child,...bless the bow of God. Methinks thy jubilee to keep The first-made anthem rang On earth deliver" d from the deep. And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
| |
