 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1840 - 342 pages
...— Why had they come to wither there, There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode. They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war * — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Thomas Gage - Rowley (Mass. : Town) - 1840 - 526 pages
...here, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine " And should not this, at every necessary expense and labor, be our grand object, both for ourselves... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 344 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - Salem (Mass.) - 1840 - 186 pages
...submitted with much diffidence, to the indulgence of tlie courteous reader. , WITCH OF NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. " Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first...what there they found, — Freedom to worship God." NEW ENGLAND scenery is said to be deficient in romantic and poetic associations. It is said that we... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 148 pages
...the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home! What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They left unstained what there they found... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land 1 There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine T The wealth of seas, the spoils of war 7 — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
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What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom... 
