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Ye mountains , that ambitious rise , And heave your summits to the skies , Revere
His awful nod ; Think how you once affrighted fled , When Jordan sought his
fountain head , And own'd th ' approaching God . Ye trees , that fill the rural scene
...
Ye mountains , that ambitious rise , And heave your summits to the skies , Revere
His awful nod ; Think how you once affrighted fled , When Jordan sought his
fountain head , And own'd th ' approaching God . Ye trees , that fill the rural scene
...
Page 140
Swift fly the years , and rise th ' expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious
Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the
incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See
nodding ...
Swift fly the years , and rise th ' expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious
Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the
incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See
nodding ...
Page 141
No more shall nation against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful
eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'i o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle
rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad
falchion ...
No more shall nation against nation rise , Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful
eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'i o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle
rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad
falchion ...
Page 158
At once shall rise Whom distant ages to each other's sight Had long denied .
Before the throne shall kneel Some great progenitor , while at his side Stands his
descendant through a thousand lines . Whate'er their nation , and whate'er their ...
At once shall rise Whom distant ages to each other's sight Had long denied .
Before the throne shall kneel Some great progenitor , while at his side Stands his
descendant through a thousand lines . Whate'er their nation , and whate'er their ...
Page 187
It is a time By Heaven in mercy given , where all may find Their best , their truest
good ; the means , the pow'r , To elevate their nature , to exert Each nobler faculty
, and still to rise In evēry virtue . Here the best may find Improvement : for what ...
It is a time By Heaven in mercy given , where all may find Their best , their truest
good ; the means , the pow'r , To elevate their nature , to exert Each nobler faculty
, and still to rise In evēry virtue . Here the best may find Improvement : for what ...
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| Title | Poems Divine and Moral |
| Author | John Bowdler |
| Compiled by | John Bowdler |
| Publisher | C. & J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Original from | University of California Irvine |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2017 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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