 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 pages
...fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold...years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon * " One is led to think from this paragraph that the scepticism, which Mr. Gray had expressed before,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold...alone : who can be a companion of thy. course ? The oakg of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold...pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself mo vest alone : who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, О sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comrst ange thon thyself movest alone. Who can he a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mouutaiu fall ; the... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in thg sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself moveat alone. Who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O Sun ? Thy everlastinglight? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold...sinks in the western wave : but thou thyself movest along ; who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall : the mountains themselves... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, (inks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course ? The... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest folth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold...decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; * See Genesis, chap, xxxii. 24—30. the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...fathers ! whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful heauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold...shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in the heavens ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world... | |
 | Archibald Smith (M.D.) - 1839 - 640 pages
...round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves...alone. Who can be a companion of thy course ?" The Indian's eyrie on the summit of some steep and lofty mountain, (seldom visited by a white man, save... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou... 
