 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !3 And yet,4 fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High,...why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 1 Triumphal arch — There is something very fine in the conception of the rainbow's being a triumphal... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1846 - 332 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1846 - 396 pages
...unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? To me, fair bow no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High,...of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...Enchantment's vail withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High,...why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 516 pages
...we mnst content ourselves with a single stanza, however, from each: " When o'er the green, undelmred earth. Heaven's covenant thou didst shine ; How came...world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign. [Campbell. " Still youn^ and fine ! but what is still in view We alight as ol 1 and soiled, though... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
..." When o'er the green undelug'd 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 smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God ! " Methinks,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...celebrated poet alluded to this sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — " When, o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant...gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - English language - 1847 - 242 pages
...Conjunctions are sometimes used. EXAMPLEs—" As though he had not been anointed with oil." " And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High...why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky." OBs. 14.—But they may not be used when one of them would fully express the connection. EXAMPLE—"... | |
 | Garland - 1847 - 104 pages
...Enchfrhtment's veil undraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told me why thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Bible - 1848 - 652 pages
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws I And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beam« Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine,... | |
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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. 
