O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven... The American Whig Review - Page 1861846Full view - About this book
| Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. " As fresh, in ypn horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man !" CAMPBELL. FOURTEENTH WEEK— SUNDAY. THE DELUGE A DIVINE JUDGEMENT. THE account which the Bible... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! 12. As fresh, in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark, First sported in thy beam. 13. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds its span, Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
| Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 312 pages
...poet sang. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. As fresh in yon horizon...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. THE CAST-AWAY. OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roar'd, When one who little thought... | |
| Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 pages
...anthem rang How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. As fresh in yon horizon...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. THE CAST-AWAY. Cotoper. OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roar'd, When one who... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO JP KEMBLE. PRIDE of the British stage, A long and last adieu ! Whose image brought... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Astronomy - 1840 - 444 pages
...say : — " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, .*• .... I h th \ V/ ft THE RAINBOW. With this accords one of the visions with which the beloved... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1840 - 376 pages
...springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal... | |
| Henry Fitz - Sermons - 1840 - 512 pages
...Covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man." And God hath made this Bow to be, to perpetual generations, the Token, or Sign of His Covenant of good... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...mushroom* springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. Ittuslrations. Can all that optics teach, $c. The science of optics teaches the real nature of the... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1841 - 416 pages
...girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young, thy beauties...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. LESSON VIII. Christian Hymn of Triumph ;— from "The Martyr of An* tioch." — MILMAN. SING to the... | |
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