 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...I'.. M. uli tln! stroke of heaven's avenging ire; Or, '••!•' pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; How lie, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Itauilti wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. XV. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; Tho precepts sage they wrote to many a land : How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...blood for guilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whercon to lay his head : How His first followers and servants...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heav'n's command. Then kneeling down to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KINO, The saint,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...that tuned the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for gnilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in heaven the second...The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; How Ho, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...wailing ^cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1851 - 790 pages
...hoc wl* WalUce Med," I* (iimlhur to every one. ; iii- <i«*i tu nixi. " Perhaps the Christian rolumc is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was...lay his head : How his first followers and servants sj>cd : The precepts sage they wrote to many a land. How lie, who lone in Patmos banished. Saw in the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. XVI. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853 - 302 pages
...recorded these bitter and distempered complaints, was. the author of the following exquisite lines: — " Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command." Or these, — " But, when in life we're tempest-driven, And conscience but a canker,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme — How...Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, [command. And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's Then kneeling down to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head ; How Ids first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; -KM How he who... | |
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Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many... 
