| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their litlie ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. It is our painful duty... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request That He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest. And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would,...chiefly, in their hearts, with grace divine preside. 1 A line from Pope's "Windsor Forest." From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...secret .homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would,...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...the warm request That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside." Think again of the first stanza of all—for you have forgotten it —of the toil-worn Cottar collecting... | |
| 1845 - 440 pages
...clam'rous nest, And decks the lily lair in tlow'ry pride, Would in the way his wisdom sees the hest, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. XIX. From scenes like lhese old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at Lome, revered ahroad... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would,...chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad... | |
| Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rons nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would,...provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preaitte, -j-24 — From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...the warm request That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, Aud decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best,...ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts, with Qrace divine preside." vol. iii. p. 174— 181. The charm of the fine lines written on turning up a... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad... | |
| Matilda Wrench - 1847 - 94 pages
...poet:— " May He who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Yet, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and...chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside." Such was the condition of a Highland family in the autumn of 1845. And now we are about to reverse... | |
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