 THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from His hollow hand, And hung His bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1721855Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1861 - 364 pages
...know our Creator, Seeing in all things around types of the Infinite Mind. NIAGAKA. JOHN GC BRAINARD. THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain...to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, " The sound of many waters," and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 pages
...•brain, While 1 look upward to thce. It would seem As if GOD ponr'd thee from his "hollow band," And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seem'd to him Who dwelt in Palmos for his Saviour's sake, "The sound of many wuters;" and had bada... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...the coral grove. PERCIVAL. THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my mind, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God...to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, " The sound of rnany waters ; " and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch his centuries... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While 1 look upward to thee. It would seem As if God pour'd thee from his "hollow hand," And hung his bow upon...awful front ; And spoke in that loud voice, which seem'd to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's Bake, " The sound of many waters;" and had bade... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...Rt-v. Iloyal Robins, of Berlin, Counecticut. THE FALL OP NIAGARA.1 The thoughts are strange that erowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God pour'd thee from his "hollow hand," And hung his bow upon thine awful front ; And spoke in that lond... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1863 - 366 pages
...the fire, and taking the candle to light his paper, read as' follows :— « THE FALL or NIAGARA. " The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,...While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God pour'd thee from his ' hollow hand,' And hung his bow upon thy awful front ; And spoke in that loud... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 348 pages
...the fire, and taking the candle to light his paper, read as follows : — "THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. " The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upwards to thee. It would seem As if God pour'd thee from his ' hollow hand,' And hung his bow upon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...portrait, and by an admirable memoir by Rev. Royal Robins, of Berlin, Connecticut THE FALL OP NIAGARA.1 The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,...While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God pour'd thee from his "hollow hand," And hung his bow upon thine awful front ; And spoke in that loud... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...grandeur. Our poet BRAINARD'S lines are, we think, among the best that have appeared on the subject : — The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,...to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, " The sound of many waters ;" and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries... | |
 | James Shaw - 1867 - 468 pages
...While I look upward to thee, it would seem A« if God poured thee from His ' hollow hand,' And hang His bow upon thine awful front, And spoke in that...to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, ' The sound of many waters ,' and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch the centuriea... | |
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