 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...born with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them; and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life...solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble, and are... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in Thy presence, reassure My feeble virtue. Here, its enemies, The passions, at Thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 9. O God! when Thou Dost score the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...seem'd Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; and there have been holy men, Who decm'd it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often...solitudes Retire, and, in thy presence, reassure My feeble virtue. Here, its enemies, *• > The passions, at tin' plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble,... | |
 | 1864 - 428 pages
...with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life...solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble and are... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 348 pages
...Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deem'd it were not well to pass life thus. — But let me...solitudes Retire, and in Thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. — Here its enemies, The passions, at Thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble, and... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 516 pages
...charms ! — these lofty trees Wave not less proudly, that their ancestors Moulder beneath them. 4. Then let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble, and are... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...ghastly foe Makes his own nourishment. For he came forth From thine own bosom, and shall have no end. . . But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble, and are... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...hoary trees and rocks Around them ; and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pash life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and. in thy presence, reassure My feeble virtue. Here, its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...end. Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them;—and there have been holy men Who deem'd it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often...solitudes Retire, and in Thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies The passions, at Thy plainer footsteps, shrink And tremble and are... | |
 | 1869 - 310 pages
...with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life...solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are... | |
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But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. 
