 And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy...  A Pilgrim's Reliquary - Page 298by Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 448 lehteFull view - About this book
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...came the world'« grey fathers forth To watch tlie sacred sign? Ao.1 when it» yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Hetbioks, thy jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth delirer'd from the deep, And the... | |
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...nitido gavisus honore1. 75 1 See Campbell's Ode to the Rainbow. "And when its yellow lustre smiled On mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God." 2 — 2 Scilicet exiraio passim suffusa nitore Per lacrymas ridet tellus ; agrique cubantes, Purpureseque... | |
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...mirth, &c. " And as the hail-cloud hanging sma-th Bursts with the thunder on the earlh." HOGG, p. 83. " When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers/brtA." CAMPBKI.I., p. S3. How both bards rhyme " bosom" is past conjecture. " The liquid... | |
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...covenant tbou didst shine, How came the word's grey fatbera-fortk To watch the sacred sign ! And when it's yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod. Each...mother held aloft her child. To bless the Bow of, God. Mi-thinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep* And the... | |
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...came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign ? 7 And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. 8 Methioks, thy juhilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And... | |
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...fabling dreams, But Words of die Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod,... | |
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...fabling dreams But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod,... | |
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...robe of beams Was woven in the sky. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her... | |
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...fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Wras woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod,... | |
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...fabling dreams. But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch the sacred sign? And when its yellow lustre smit'd O'er mountains yet untrod,... | |
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