 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.  A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 243by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - Assyria - 1887 - 486 pages
...carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver." (Isaiah, v. 26-29.) * " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Nehemiah Curnock - 1888 - 122 pages
...good — English poet describes the scene around Jerusalem on that awful night : " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves... | |
 | George Rawlinson - Bible - 1889 - 264 pages
...surrounding circumstances is that of the English poet, who has thus depicted them : " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host, with their banners,... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - Assyria - 1889 - 914 pages
...and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver." (Isaiah, v. 26-29.)* " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - Assyria - 1889 - 506 pages
...carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver." (Isaiah, v. 26-29.) * " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Missions to Jews - 1902 - 474 pages
...is worthy of having been penned by a holier hand than the one which wrote it : " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming in purp'; and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like star* on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...Distinct, but distant — clear — but oh, how cold! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THK Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple And the sheen of their spears was lit stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.... | |
 | Military art and science - 1903 - 696 pages
...men. This scene is graphically described by one of our modern poets, who says : "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand." — II Kings, xix, 35. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1819 - 494 pages
...eye*, From dungeons dark the captives rise, My soul REJOICE ! AZ 2 KINGS xix. 35. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple aa£ gold: And the sheen of their spean was like sun an the MB, When the blue wave rolls nightly en... | |
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