 Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer....  Days with Uncle Jack - Page 174by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amid the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea...the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean-eagle soar'd From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...silence and in' fear; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amid the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods ranff To the anthem of the free ! The ocean-eagle soar'd From his nest by the white wave's foam, And... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1841 - 766 pages
...the wilderness. On that bleak, frozen rock, they raised an altar at once to freedom and to God. "Amid the storm they sang; And the stars heard, and the sea, And the founding aisles of the dim wood rang With the anlhem of the free." Surely, this is the spirit most... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 pages
...Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the...woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soar'd From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roar'd — This... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the...woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soar'd From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roar'd— This was... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...silence and in fear ; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer. 3. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and...the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean-eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared—-... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 486 pages
...gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; The ocean eagle soared From his nest, by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roar'd : This was their welcome home. What sought they thus afar 1 Bright jewels of the mine ? The... | |
 | J. Cypress - American poetry - 1842 - 260 pages
...the first American pilgrims trod, with fearful feet. the deck of the preciousfreighted May flower. " Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods,rang To the anthem of the free !" ******* Where are all the old hymn tunes that the churches... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence, and in fear : They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; The ocean eagle soared From his nest, by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...fear ; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storms they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the voices of the free ! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking... | |
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