 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...vail withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have...why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold, material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have...world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign I And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams. But words of the Most High, Have...Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet... | |
 | John Holland - 1843 - 402 pages
...attentive looks watch every hour, For thy new light and trembled at each shower. — vAUGHAN. THE RAINBOW. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant...How came the world's gray fathers forth, [To watch the sacred sign. CAMPBELL. We have now arrived at the period of the publication of a Metrical Version... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...compliance of the heart with the whole will of God.— Sir M. Hale. THE RAINBOW The Rainbow shines no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first its robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant it did... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !3 And yet,4 fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have...why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 1 Triumphal arch — There is something very fine in the conception of the rainbow's being a triumphal... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1846 - 396 pages
...Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? To me, fair bow no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have...of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...vail withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have...why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's... | |
 | 1846 - 516 pages
...we mnst content ourselves with a single stanza, however, from each: " When o'er the green, undelmred earth. Heaven's covenant thou didst shine ; How came...world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign. [Campbell. " Still youn^ and fine ! but what is still in view We alight as ol 1 and soiled, though... | |
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And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have told, why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 
