 The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of Darkness shall Receive my parting ghost! "This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark: Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark ! No! it shall live again, and...  Time's Telescope - Page cxi1826Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...spreads my pall, — The majesty of darkness shall This spirit shall return to Him That gave its heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou...and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of victory, — And took the sting... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...Darkness shall Receive my parting ghost ! 23 This spirit shall return to Him That gave its heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No! it shall live again, and afiine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...For thou, ten thousand thousand years, Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow. Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim, When thou thyself...the grave of victory, And took the sting from death ! 5. " Go, Sun, while mercy holds me up On Nature's awful waste, To drink this last and bitter cup... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...immortality brought to light by the Saviour." This spirit shall return to Him Who gave the heavenly spark ; Yet think not, sun, it shall be dim When thou...the grave of victory, And took the sting from death. " To his niece he said, ' Come, let us sing praises to Christ :' then, pointing to the bedside, he... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...immortality brought to light by the Saviour." This spirit shall return to Him Who gave the heavenly spark ; Yet think not, sun, it shall be dim When thou...and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath Who captive led captivity— Who robb'd the grave of victory, And took the sting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1849 - 660 pages
...curious book, the Cycloja Christianas, p. 79. This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou...and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath, Who captive led Captivity, Who robb'd the Grave of victory And took the sting from... | |
 | 1849 - 296 pages
...feeling of his own trinmphant lines : — " 'This spirit shall return to him Who gave its heavenly spark : Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou...and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By him reealled to breath, Who eaptive led eaptivity. Who robbed the grave of vietory, And look the sting... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...of bis own triumphant lines : — " 'This spirit shall return to him Who gave its heavenly sp.irk : Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim. When thou thyself...and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By him reealled to breath, Who eaptive led eaptivity, Who robbed the grave of vietory, And took the sting... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...the feeling of his own triumphant lines :— 1 This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou...art dark ! — No ! it shall live again, and shine 1л bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath, Who captive led Captivity, Who robb'd... | |
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