Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4671863Full view - About this book
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause I prophetic of her end. YOL-NG. Mysterious night! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...and educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIGHT. Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of... | |
| 1862 - 972 pages
...crowd upon the view, and саше the Christian soldier to quake, and tremble, and misgive. H. Sonar. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue P Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus,... | |
| Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 pages
...starlight, we lose our consciousness of the terrestrial in the grander consciousness of the universal. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'nenth a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with... | |
| Religious poetry - 1863 - 220 pages
...him that said " Rejoice ! rejoice ! " The Illusion of Life. 51 THE ILLUSION OF LIFE. • YSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...line is remarkable for the distinctness of enunciation required : * "Sharpe's Magazine," No. 25, 1846. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Tet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...NIQHT AND DEATH. — WHITE.' MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report^Kvine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neafh a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus,* with... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...the eye and prospect of his soul, than when she liv'd indeed. W. SHAKESPEARE 504 ON NIGHT AND DEATH MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew thee...this glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| William Arthur Darby - 1864 - 150 pages
...LARGELY INDEBTED TO "THE BEDFOED CATALOGUE," IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOE. INTRODUCTION. " Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, "neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...be taken as the most perfect illustration of the principles which I have endeavoured to enforce : " Mysterious Night! when our first Parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of trauslucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
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