 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! 12. As fresh, in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark, First sported in thy beam. 13. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds its span, Nor lets the type grow pale with... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...held aloft her child, To bless the bow of God. ****** " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. " As fresh, in ypn horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam.... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 318 pages
...Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. THE CAST-AWAY. Cotoper. OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roar'd, When one who... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 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...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO JP KEMBLE. PRIDE of the British stage, A long and last adieu ! Whose image brought... | |
 | Christian - English poetry - 1840 - 312 pages
...earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. THE CAST-AWAY. OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roar'd, When one who little thought... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Astronomy - 1840 - 444 pages
...of ages since it was thus given, we may say : — " How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, .*• .... I h th \ V/ ft THE RAINBOW. With this accords one of the visions with which the beloved... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1840 - 376 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...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal... | |
 | Henry Fitz - Sermons - 1840 - 512 pages
...Covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man." And God hath made this Bow to be, to perpetual generations, the Token, or Sign of His Covenant of good... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...in the freshened 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...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. Ittuslrations. Can all that optics teach, $c. The science of optics teaches the real nature of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1841 - 416 pages
...girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young, thy beauties...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. LESSON VIII. Christian Hymn of Triumph ;— from "The Martyr of An* tioch." — MILMAN. SING to the... | |
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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... 
