 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 gray fathers forth To watch thy...  Theodric: A Domestic Tale, and Other Poems - Page 53by Thomas Campbell - 1824 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
...mirth, &c. " And as the hail-cloud hanging sma-th Bursts with the thunder on the earlh." HOGG, p. 83. " When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers/brtA." CAMPBKI.I., p. S3. How both bards rhyme " bosom" is past conjecture. " The liquid sounding... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...yield their place To cold material laws. Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of...world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child And when its yellow lustre smiled To bless... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 766 pages
...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...shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smit'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Hymns - 1821 - 328 pages
...first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 6 When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's cov'nant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft... | |
 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - Books - 1823 - 700 pages
...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...watch thy sacred sign ! " And when its yellow lustre smil'd " Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep,... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - English poetry - 1823 - 388 pages
...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...watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methinks,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 786 pages
...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...shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 780 pages
...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...shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...place But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. « When ' When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant...watch thy sacred sign! ' And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, r . Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.' We... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, Edward Turner - Hymns, English - 1824 - 406 pages
...first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 6 When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's cov'nant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod. Each mother held aloft... | |
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