| William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...no master, Seeks there his wild delights; But we for thy communion Have sought the mountain sod — For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! The banner of the chieftain Far, far below us waves ; The war-horse of the spearman Can not reach... | |
| 1844 - 504 pages
...Bearing record of our dead ; For the snows and for the torrents, For the free heart's burial sod — For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! |\w. D -P- <• i« « F' P_ o* — 1 ^* "L — n • i 1 i , I/ ' 1 -• -i- -* 1 r9 ' 1 ii THE... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...That by thy breath are stirr'd ; For the storms on whose free pinions Thy spirit walks abroad, — For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! The royal eagle darteth On his quarry from the heights, And the stag that knows no master Seeks there... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1845 - 382 pages
...altar 'Midst the silence of the sky : The rocks yield founts of courage, Struck forth as by thy rod ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! For the dark resounding caverns, Where thy still, small voice is heard ; For the strong pines of... | |
| 1846 - 200 pages
...fathers' God I Thou hast made thy children mighty, By the t>mch of the mountain sod. Thou hast fix'd our ark of refuge Where the spoiler's foot ne'er trod: For the strength of the hills we biess Thee, Our God, our fathers' God. We are watcher* ef a beacon Whose light must never die, We are... | |
| 1846 - 206 pages
...battle, Bearing record of our dead, For the snows and for the torrents, For the free hearts' burial sod : For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God. The following lines, which graphically describe some of tfie scenery of the valleys, are from the pen... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...Bearing record of our dead ; For the snows, and for the torrents, For the free heart's burial sod, For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! WASHINGTON'S STATUE. YES ! rear thy guardian hero's form On thy proud soil, thou Western World !... | |
| Hill Dawe Wickham - 1847 - 264 pages
...battle, Bearing record of our dead ; For the snows and for the torrents, For the free heart's burial sod: For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! " After the Duke of Savoy had broken with, the King of France, Fort Mirabouc, and the several little... | |
| 1852 - 798 pages
...altar, 'Midst the silence of the sky. The rock yields founts of courage Struck forth as by Thy rod — For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! For the dark resounding heavens, Where thy still small voice is heard, For the strong pines of the... | |
| Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 pages
...altar Midst the silence of the sky; The rocks yield founts of courage, Struck forth as by thy rod ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God."—Mrs. Hemans. I had a seeming friend;—I gave him gifts and he was gone ; I had an open enemy;... | |
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