So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world... New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 394by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
| 1886 - 856 pages
...my delight is to be with the children of men." From St. James's Gazette. SNOW-TRACKS. THIS morning We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...above, no earth below ; A universe of sky and snow. The sun shines, and a rosy suffusion lies over the landscape. All the fences are buried deep, and the trees... | |
| 1886 - 1052 pages
...boundaries of the home lot. " \Vc look upon a world unknown, On nothing we cim call our own. . . . No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow." The gentle rain falling from heaven alike upon the just and the unjust is the accepted figure of mercy;... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or... | |
| 1887 - 448 pages
...signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, AH day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and BUOW! . The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes: strange domes and towers Rose up where... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 534 pages
...starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, 1Ve looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call...sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers. Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing \ve could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent...sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call cur own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls...the firmament No cloud above, no earth below, — A univeree of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and... | |
| M. F. Hyde - 1888 - 246 pages
...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent 1 1 — —— •The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 pages
...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall,... | |
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