 And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy...  The Edinburgh annual register - Sivu 3671823Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1821 - 712 sivua
...came the world'« grey fathers forth To watch tlie sacred sign? Ao.1 when it» yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Hetbioks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth delirer'd from the deep, And the... | |
 | Cambridge univ - 1852 - 348 sivua
...nitido gavisus honore1. 75 1 See Campbell's Ode to the Rainbow. "And when its yellow lustre smiled On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God." 2 — 2 Scilicet exiraio passim suffusa nitore Per lacrymas ridet tellus ; agrique cubantes, Purpureseque... | |
 | 1821 - 438 sivua
...covenant tbou didst shine, How came the word's grey fatbera-fortk To watch the sacred sign ! And when it's yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod. Each...mother held aloft her child. To bless the Bow of, God. Mi-thinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep* And the... | |
 | 1821 - 694 sivua
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep. And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy... | |
 | 1821 - 766 sivua
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smit'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang. On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first Poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy... | |
 | 1821 - 772 sivua
...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methiuks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1821 - 328 sivua
...came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 8 Methioks, thy juhilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And... | |
 | 1821 - 770 sivua
...sign. O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child And when its yellow lustre smiled To bless the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | 1823 - 400 sivua
...undelnged earth Heaven's covenant then didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...the bow of GOD. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1823 - 388 sivua
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivertt from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the... | |
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