 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
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 314 pages
...Night," by the Rev. Blanco White, the finest and most grandly conceived in our language : — Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely fram^— This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...the Rev. Blanco White, the finest and most grandly conceived in our language : — Mysterious Night 1 when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Bid he not tremble for this lovely frame— This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...comfort from above ; Everywhere His glory shineth ; God is wisdom, God is love. 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 ?... | |
 | 1854 - 440 pages
...astonishment." " Take heed, therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness." 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 would have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ?... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1854 - 260 pages
...being to whose attractive power we had moved when we saw them not I * " "Mysterious night ! when oar first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard...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 !... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 432 pages
...which lies beyond these realms of change, decay, and death : " Mysterious night, when our first paYent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name,...flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came,; And lol creation widened in man's view. Who would have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams,... | |
 | 1854 - 460 pages
...beings and immortal life imperceptible before. i " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...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?... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1854 - 260 pages
...first parent kneir Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremhlc for this lovelv frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet,...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought »»«.•& darkness lay concealed Within thy beams,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright ! BEX JOKBOX ] 574-1 6ST. TO NIGHT. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...This glorious canopy of light and blue .' Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...us what we are : — even I Regained my freedom with a sigh. SONNET. — J. Blanco White. MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tromble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent... | |
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