 What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom...  Elementary English... - Page 127by Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Great Britain - 1842 - 206 pages
...homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. Wliat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical minister of Boston, in his Ecclesiastical History of New England.... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...And the rocking pines of the forest roar'd : This was their welcome home. What sought they thus afart Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas ? —...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They left unstaiu'd what there they found... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 486 pages
...the rocking pines of the forest roar'd : This was their welcome home. What sought they thus afar 1 Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? — the spoils of war t They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...their homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine— The wealth of seas—the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. 5. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of sens ? the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 208 pages
...homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. Wliat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine— The wealth of seas—the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youthWhat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth: What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war 1 — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod !... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1844 - 576 pages
...the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home ! 7 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! 8 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they... | |
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