 The priest-like father reads the sacred page; How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic...  The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life - Page 255by Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, — How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious...fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...Creator's praise. XI The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's...royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heav'n's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...praise. "7 The priest-like father reads the sacred page, — How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious...fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. I2fi Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, — How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...Creator's praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's...fire; Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 888 pages
...sacred page, — How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage ~'j With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or, how the royal...fire; Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...Creator's praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred pageHow Abram was the friend of GOD on high; d, about six feet from the end of my chain. The next...charging it only with powder, which, by the close • gray temples • chooses "incite* 'cow Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme — How guiltless... | |
 | Charles Josiah Galpin - Church attendance - 1925 - 168 pages
...made us know: The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious...groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; [37] Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy... | |
 | Charles Josiah Galpin - Church attendance - 1925 - 168 pages
...ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; [37] Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt...fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Conversation in the morning brought out the fact that this hillside home was virtually the only one,... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...GOD on^fiigh; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage IJO With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how ttfe r's Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme— How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed: How He, who... | |
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