 | Thomas Arnold - 1877 - 656 pages
...hardened in crime : — But, hark ! the vesper-call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air From Syria's thousand minarets...forehead to the South, Lisping the eternal name of God And looking, while his hands and eyes Are lifted to the glowing skies, Like a stray babe of Paradise,... | |
 | John Swain (Writer of Verse.) - 1877 - 436 pages
...morning's glorious rays. But hark ! the vesper call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From Syria's thousand minarets...sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th' eternal name of God From purity's own cherub mouth, And looking, while his hands and eyes Are lifted... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...glorious rays. 85 But hark ! the vesper-call * to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight * sets, Is rising sweetly on the air From Syria's * thousand minarets.* The boy * has started from the bed 90 Of flowers, where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, ' . From Syria's thousand minarets !15 The boy has started from the bed Of flowers, where...the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south,18 Lisping the eternal name of God From purity's own cherub mouth, And looking, while his hands... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...man of hardened crime and blood: when hark! the vesper call to prayer is rising sweetly on the air: the boy has started from the bed of flowers, where...eternal name of "God ! " from Purity's own cherub mouth ! The wretched man then said, in mild heart-humbled tones : " Tbou blessed child ! there was a time,... | |
 | James Burke - 1879 - 276 pages
...daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air From SYUIA'S thousand minarets The boy has started from his bed Of flowers, where he had laid his head, And down...sod Kneels with his forehead to the south, Lisping th' eternal name of God From purity's own cherub mouth. And looking, while his hands and eyes Are lilted... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - 1879 - 572 pages
...morning's glorious rays. But, harkI the vesper call to pray'r, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From SYRIA'S thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flow'rs, where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...glorious rays. But hark ! the vesper call 8 to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air From Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed ofilowfrs, where he had laid hia head, And down upon the fragrant »od Kneels, with his forehead to... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...morning's glorious rays. But hark I the vesper call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air From Syria's thousand minarets....sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th' eternal name of God From purity's own cherub mouth, And looking, while his hands and eyes Are lifted... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 454 pages
...morning's glorious rays. But hark ! the vesper call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly o•n the air From Syria's thousand minarets...sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th' eternal name of God From purity's own cherub mouth ; And looking, while his hands and eyes Are... | |
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