 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...strength of the hills, we bless thee, our God, our fathers' The royal eagle darteth on his quarry11 from the heights, And the stag that knows no master...thee, our God, our fathers' God! The banner of the chieftain"12 far, far l>elow us waves; The war-horse of the spearman cuuiiot reach our lofty eavea... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...strength of the hills we hless thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! The royal eagle darteth On his qunrry from the heights, And the stag that knows no master...the mountain sod ; For the strength of the hills we hless thee, Our God, our fathers' God. The hauner of the chicftain Far, far helow na waves ; The war-horse... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...pinions thy spirit walks abroad ; For the strength of the hills, we bleas thee, our God, our fathers' The royal eagle darteth on his quarry" from the heights, And the stag that knows no master socks there hia wild delights ; But we, for thy communion, have sought the mountain sod ; For the strength... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 pages
...By God's sweet peace — when I am old. CAROLINE A. BRIGGS. CXI. — HYMN OF THE MOUNTAINEERS. FOB the strength of the hills we bless thee, our God, our fathers God! Thou hast made thy children mighty, by the touch of the mountain sod. • Thou hast fixed our ark of... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1858 - 412 pages
...of our dead ; For the snows and for the torrents, For the free hearts' burial sod ; POPULATION. 101 For the strength of the hills, we bless Thee, Our God, our fethera' God I" To the men who entered it conscious of an evil purpose, it must have seemed a very... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...abroad ; For the strength of the hills, we bless chee, our God, our fathers' The royal eagle ditrteth on his quarry" from the heights, And the stag that...strength of the hills we bless thee, our God, our father* God! The banner of the chieftaini62 far, far below us waves ; The war-horse of the spearman... | |
 | mrs. Lucy Wilson - 1860 - 344 pages
...touch of the mountain sod. " Thou hast placed our ark of refuge Where the spoiler's foot ne'er trod. For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, Our God, our fathers' God ! " Loud were the exclamations of joy when, in the early morning, after a night of travel, the well-known.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 432 pages
...still seemed to allure them by its wavering and uncertain flicker. CHAPTER XVII. A NIGHT OF TERROR. " For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, Our God, our Father's God; Thou hast made our spirits mighty, By the touch of the mountain sod !"—HBMANS. " HERE... | |
 | Justin Perkins - 1861 - 274 pages
...hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God. The royal eagle darteth On his quarry from the bights ; And the stag, that knows no master, Seeks there his wild delights ; But we, for thy communion, Have Bought the mountain sod ; For the strength of the hills we bless theo, Our God, our fathers' God. The... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 pages
...a temple, Of which the God is nigh. The rocks yield founts of courage, Struck forth as by His rod ; For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, Our God— our Father's God!" To pious mountaineers, who daily worship their Creator at his loftiest shrines, in Nature's... | |
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