THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,... The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 208by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Turner Morehead - Kentucky - 1840 - 192 pages
...Christian's worship, and echoed back the message of the Redeemer of the world. It was fit it should be so. "The groves were God's first temples: Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above him; ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems — in the darkling... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 658 pages
...referring to his Forest Hymn, beginning thus :— "The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learn'd To hew the shaft and lay the architrave, And spread...back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thauks And supplication."... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 366 pages
...Catholic church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half hour, " in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...Catholic church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half hour, ' in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' At the end of the half hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 312 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." grace. For lunch they give you a cold round of beef, juicy and tender; ham, perfectly cured, perfectly... | |
| James Turner Morehead - Kentucky - 1841 - 200 pages
...the world. It was fit it should be so. ..•.** . .• *• "The groves were God's first temples: Era man learned To hew the shaft and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above him; ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems — in the darkling... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...HYMN. THE groves were GOD'S first temples. Ere man leam'd To hew the shaft, and lay the arehitrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed...back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knell down, And offer'd lo the Mightiest solemn thanks, And supplication.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. FOREST HYMN. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1843 - 524 pages
...then, beg- £,?,"'£ ging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him 3i3>Malone for a half hour, " in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
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