 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...and lies down to pleasant dreams. FOREST HYMN. THE groves were GOD'S first temples. Ere man learn'd To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them. — ere he frameJ The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...devotional feeling which we everywhere find in Bryant : "The groves were God's first temples. Ere man turned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them i — ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...speak, for we know that they will listen to us. " The groves were God's first temples. Ere man turned 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... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - History - 1856 - 440 pages
...Catholic Church; then begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour— ' In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' "' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 432 pages
...Catholic Church ; then begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — ' In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he...to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1856 - 754 pages
...Catholic Church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour ' in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he...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... | |
 | California. Legislature - 1875 - 1026 pages
...the use of each. 9. Punctuate and capitalize the following: " the groves were god's first temples ore man learned to hew the shaft and lay the architrave...vault to gather and roll back the sound of anthems ho knelt down and offered to the mightiest solemn thanks." 10. What are simple, complex, and compound... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 520 pages
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll' back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication."3 Natural characteristics in the same manner determine the quality of holiness attributed... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - Poetry - 1978 - 398 pages
...— did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. (1824; 1824) A FOREST HYMN The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
...recited : Firnt Pupil : "The groves were God's first temple", Ere man learned To hew the shaft, aud lay the architrave And spread the roof above them...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The round of anthem?. In the darkling wood, Anild-l the cool and silence, he knelt down Aud ottered to... | |
| |
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,... 
