 | Periodicals - 1846 - 730 pages
...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre. smiled O'er mountains...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam : Theme of primeval prophesy, Be still the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...came the world's grey father* fc«ih To watch thy sacred sign f " And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod. Each mother held aloft...bow of God ! " Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang. On earth deliver' d from the deep. And the first poet sang. " Nor ever shall... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled • O'er mountains...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God." An instance of similar terseness and meaning may be found in the Valedictory Stanzas to Kemble : "... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! 7. And when its yellow luster smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. 8. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth, delivered from the deep, And... | |
 | Garland - 1847 - 104 pages
...Heaven's covenant thou did'st shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth, delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sanp. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod,...mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. ****** " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - English language - 1847 - 242 pages
...The—Adjunct of " tempest." Examples applicable to Diagram (19) or (20), with the addition of Adjuncts. " And when its yellow lustre smiled, O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, t To bless the bow of God." " We range us in line As the voice of the trumpet is calling." " The virtue... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 602 pages
...three. The same that gleamed there, the day, when the family of Noah descended from the Ark, and " each mother held aloft her child to bless the bow of God." And never since that fardistant hour, either on the land or sea, in city or in solitude, hath a single... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...three. The same that gleamed there, the day, when the family of Noah descended from the Ark, and " each mother held aloft her child to bless the bow of God." And never since that fardistant hour, either on the land or sea, in city or in solitude, hath a single... | |
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How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 
