 THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and...  The United States Literary Gazette - Page 281825Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 300 pages
...sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offer'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks, that, high in... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...Asnhinil's Register of 1790, p. 32. I History of Ten Churches, p. 42. •* History of Ten Churches, p. 90. Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplications."* In 1785, three associations were organized, viz. : The ELKHORN, comprising all the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 380 pages
...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,— ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems,...to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication." KHYANT. IN- the twenty-seventh chapter of the Book of the P.rophet Ezekiel we have full particulars... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in... | |
 | 1852 - 196 pages
...vault, to gather and roll back FOREST HYMN. 11*8 The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks, that high in... | |
 | 1852 - 652 pages
...Catholic Church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half-hour, ' IN the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the MIGHTIEST solemn thanks And supplication.' At the end of the half-hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 pages
...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere be framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, be knell down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication."... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pages
...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems,...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks, that, high in... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 pages
...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems,...the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For Jiis simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the place,... | |
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