 Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hear even now the infinite fierce...  America - Page 2541878Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...the awful symphonies ! I hear e'en now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the dreadful groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade, And, ever... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...keys ! What loud lament and dismal miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear, even now, the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony,...gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for morcy drowns; The soldiers'... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear, even now, the infinite fierce chorus, 10 The cries of agony, the endless groan, — Which,...Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, 15 And loud amid the universal clamor, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear the Florentine,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear, even now, the infinite fierce chorus, 10 The cries of agony, the endless groan, — Which,...gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, IS * And loud amid the universal clamor, On helm... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...swift keys 1 What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan— Which, through the nges thut have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings the... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hrar even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through (he ages that have gone before ui, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...swift keys! What loud lament and dreary miserere Will minglewith their awful symphonies! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony,...reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings the Sason hammer ; Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song ; And loud amid the universal clamour,... | |
 | 1873 - 398 pages
...swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now, the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the agee that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...swift keys! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies ! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus. The cries of agony,...the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels... | |
 | 1856 - 604 pages
...their awful symphonies. I hear, even now, the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the dreadful groan, Which through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade, And ever... | |
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