Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting... Littell's Living Age - Page 2881854Full view - About this book
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...above • Everywhere His glory shineth ; God is wisdom, God is love. Buwiuso. TO NIGHT. MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O sun 1... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1853 - 260 pages
...vast orders of being to whose attractive power we had moved when we saw them not ! * * " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun !... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pages
...it is needless to say anything in its praise. " SONNET ON THE REV. JOSEPH m AXCO WHITE. Mysterious Night ! When our first parent knew Thee from report...flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo I Creation widen'd in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay conceal'd Within thy beams,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIUHT. Mysterious Night! when our first jiarent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did...Hesperus with the host of Heaven came, And, lo! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun !... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 156 pages
...enunciation required : — Mysterious Night 1 when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, bad heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun?... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 pages
...enunciation required : — Mysterious Night I when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, tnjd heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came. And lo 1 creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darfcness lay conceal'd "Within thy beams,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 162 pages
...enunciation required : — Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, i.,id heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting name, Heaperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1853 - 266 pages
...vast orders of being to whose attractive power we had moved when we saw them not ! * * " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue f Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 pages
...finest and most grandly conceived in our language : — " Mysterious Night ! when our first parents knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name,...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a current of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the hosts... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1853 - 260 pages
...heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, 0 Sun !... | |
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