 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...transcribing the latter part of them. " When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ? " And when ita yellow lustre smi1'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the green undeluged1 earth, Heaven's covenant2 thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers3 forth, To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow...God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem4 rang On earth, delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 492 pages
...When o'er the green undeluged Earth Heaven's Covenant, thou didst shine, How came the World's Gray Fathers forth, To watch thy Sacred sign. And when...Mother held aloft her Child To bless The Bow of God." CAMPBELL'S " Rainbow." Coblenz, Hotel of the Giant, November 8th, 1844. " TIME ! What call you Time... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 474 pages
...When o'er the green undeluged Earth Heaven's Covenant, thou didst shine, How came the World's Gray Fathers forth, To watch thy Sacred sign. And when...Mother held aloft her Child To bless The Bow of God." CAMPBELL'S " Rainbow." Coblenz, Hotel of the Giant, November 8th, 1844. " TIME ! What call you Time... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pages
...sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam : Theme of primeval prophesy, Be still the... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...When o'er the green, undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God." An instance of similar terseness and meaning may be found in the Valedictory Stanzas to Kemble : "... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pages
...beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang On earth, deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...came the world's grey father* fc«ih To watch thy sacred sign f " And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod. Each mother held aloft...jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang. On earth deliver' d from the deep. And the first poet sang. " Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unrapmr'd greet... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...transcribing the latter pail of them. " When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth...watch thy sacred sign ? " And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God ! " Methinks,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! 7. And when its yellow luster smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. 8. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth, delivered from the deep, And... | |
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And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy... 
