 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 296 pages
...They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they saug, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding...woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam ; And the rocking pines of the forest roared— This... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...silence and in fear ; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. 4 Amidst the storm they sang ; And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim wood rang With the anthem of the free. 5 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea : And the sounding voice of the dim woods rang, To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soared, From his nest by the white wave's foam ; And the rocking pmes of the forest roared, This was... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear, — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the...heard and the sea ! And the sounding aisles of the dim wood rang To the anthems of the free ! The ocean-eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...the trumpet that sings of fame. They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns oflofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard,...woods rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam: And the rocking pines of the forest roared, — This... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 524 pages
...the long line of coming generations — that first prayer on the ever-memorable Sabbath morn, when " Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and...And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthems of the free." " It is not too much to say that in the first prayer from the soil of the new... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - New England - 1996 - 460 pages
...the ocean, they made their earthly home. * * * " ' Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars henrd and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From bis nest r»y the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared— This... | |
 | William J. Bennett - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 392 pages
...branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the...woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This... | |
 | John D. Seelye - History - 1998 - 724 pages
...sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear,— They shook the depths of the desert's gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the...aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free! (Poems, 1:25-26) Hemans went on for another five stanzas to celebrate the errand of the Pilgrim Fathers,... | |
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Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear: — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty... 
