 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...drew near To this last mansion of mankind, Tlie slow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musing wrapt htonvroug: In the brightM use tho'thousand charms conspire. Her voice is all these, t Each mould'ring bone, Each sculplur'clstone, Strikes mute instruction uğ the heart! Now let the sacred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...surplic'd train draw near To this In -t mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable bier, Inlioly musings wrap the mind ! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart ; F.ach mouldering bone, Kach sculptur'd stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart ! Now, let the... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...at a tomb. Lo ! as the surplic'd train draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musings wrap the mind! And...With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart, Each mouldering bone, Each sculptur'd stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart. Now let the sacred... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...drew near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable brie, In holy musing wrapt the mind! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart; Each mould'ring bone, Each sculptur'd stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart! Now let the sacred... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...drew near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musing wrapt the mind ! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart; Each mouldering bone, Each sculptured stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart! Now let the sacred... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable hier,. In holy musings wrapt the mind ! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart, Each mould'ring bone, Each sculptur'd stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart. Now let the sacred... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...drew near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musing wrapt the mind ! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart ; Each mouldering bone, Each sculptured stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart ! Now let the... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow nod bell, the sable bier, In holy musings wrapt Whore Each monld'ring bone, Each sculptured stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart. Now let the sacred... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...at a tomb. Lo! as the surpliced train draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The alow sad bell, the sable bier, In holy musings wrap the mind ! And...With trembling stream Attending tapers faintly dart, Each mouldering bone, Each sculptured stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart ! Now let the sacred... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...draw near To this last mansion of mankind, The slow sad dell, the sable bier, In holy musings wrapt the mind ! And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart, Each mould'ring bone Each sculptured stone. Strikes mute instruction to the heart. David Mallet, THE... | |
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Each sculptured stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart ! Now let the sacred organ blow, With solemn pause, and sounding slow ; Now let the voice due measure keep, In strains that sigh, and words that weep ; Till all the vocal current blended roll,... 