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... comes thy roar to earth's pained ear ! How to her view thy misty breathings rise ! Thou Crater of the Lakes , that inland spread , Seem like a vast volcano torn apart , By thee disgorging all its fireless streams ; How oft my heart has ...
... comes thy roar to earth's pained ear ! How to her view thy misty breathings rise ! Thou Crater of the Lakes , that inland spread , Seem like a vast volcano torn apart , By thee disgorging all its fireless streams ; How oft my heart has ...
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... Come , ye blest breathings of the earth , come now , From glen and grove , and waft us back again To those sweet play - grounds of our infant days . Ye mountains ! looking down from star - crowned heights , Whose guardian summits ...
... Come , ye blest breathings of the earth , come now , From glen and grove , and waft us back again To those sweet play - grounds of our infant days . Ye mountains ! looking down from star - crowned heights , Whose guardian summits ...
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... Come with thy beams and gently draw us up ; Let clouds that follow in thy regal train , Bend at thy word from their ethereal flight , And bear us in their bosoms to our homes . Come , ere in anguish , as we beat the beach , To drive the ...
... Come with thy beams and gently draw us up ; Let clouds that follow in thy regal train , Bend at thy word from their ethereal flight , And bear us in their bosoms to our homes . Come , ere in anguish , as we beat the beach , To drive the ...
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... summit thou dost launch Thy snow - white torrents on the abyss below ; If found within thy swift unerring course , ' Twere vain to flee , to stay is death indeed ! How much like Life's usurper thou dost come , With 24 NIAGARA .
... summit thou dost launch Thy snow - white torrents on the abyss below ; If found within thy swift unerring course , ' Twere vain to flee , to stay is death indeed ! How much like Life's usurper thou dost come , With 24 NIAGARA .
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... come ! Oft with thy voice dost thou , Historian rare ! Declare the fate of nations that were throned In might and splendor like the stars of night , O'er earth's vast acres holding their control , But now ' whelmed ' neath the cataract ...
... come ! Oft with thy voice dost thou , Historian rare ! Declare the fate of nations that were throned In might and splendor like the stars of night , O'er earth's vast acres holding their control , But now ' whelmed ' neath the cataract ...
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Page 149 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 151 - And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 150 - Inspire the course ; but fainting breathless toil, Sick, seizes on his heart: he stands at bay; And puts his last weak refuge in despair; The big round tears run down his dappled face ; He groans in anguish...
Page 149 - Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Page 164 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 151 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 184 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 165 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 165 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.