 | 1872 - 710 pages
...stole over him, and bowed [power His spirit with the thought of boundless And inaccessible majesty. ! Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood. Offer one hymn, — thrice happy if it find... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roots That our frail hands have raised? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this ancient wood,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? _ XQB on? hymn, — thrice happy if it find Acceptance in his ear. Father, fhy hand Hath reared these venerable... | |
 | C. Duxbury - 1873 - 184 pages
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? Let me, at legist, Offer one hymn—thrice happy if it find Here in the shadow of this aged wood, Acceptance... | |
 | 1873 - 296 pages
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if it find... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 pages
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why • Should we, in the world's riper years,...crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if it find... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...over him, and bowed His spirit wifli the thought of boundles'? Power And inaccessible Majesty. Ah I why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn ; thrice happy, if it find... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pages
...ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only r.mong the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if il find Acceptance in his ear. Father, thy hand Hath rcar'd these venerable columns, thou Didst weave... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah ! why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? — Bryant. TESTAMENT.— The New All the genius and learning of the heathen world, all the penetration... | |
 | Joseph Doddridge - 1876 - 342 pages
...open air, the stately forest trees being their only surroundings and shelter from sun and shower. " Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? " From several records before us, it appears that the few Episcopal clergymen in the west, at -an... | |
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And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible... 
