 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...in hues of ancient promise there imprest, frail in its date, eterualin its meaning. — CT Tnntei: knowledge is hurtful to him who bas not honesty and...Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tr Campbell. That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens !—... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...in its date, eternal in its meaning. — С. Т. Turner. Faithful to its sacred page, heaven Htill rebuilds thy span, nor lets the type grow pale with age, that first spoke peace to man.— Campbell. That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens !—... | |
 | American poetry - 1915 - 416 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down! As fresh...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. Thomas Campbell [1777-1844] GREEN THINGS GROWING MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovcsome thing, God wot! Rose... | |
 | 1872 - 300 pages
...of us to place our trust in the everlasting covenant, of which the rainbow is still the emblem ? ' For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man.' Sunshine and rain are both needed to form the glorious rainbow ; so to make us heirs of the promise... | |
 | Children's stories, English - 1873 - 846 pages
...bless the bow of God. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh...the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to His sacred page, God still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down! As fresh...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam: i For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span ; Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1861 - 522 pages
...mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, towor, and town, Or mirror'd in tho ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. As fresh in yon...horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the caglo from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 pages
...in the freshen'd fields, The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast A thousand...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Lake poets - 1923 - 398 pages
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down I As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." And one of his latest poems, The Dead Eagle, written at Oran in Africa, bears witness to the same,... | |
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O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven... 
