London town; Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song... Random Rambles - Page 178by Louise Chandler Moulton - 1881 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among ; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. The children must he singing to-day. I do not see the churches ; I do not hear the children playing... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...like a mighty wind, they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings, the seats of heaven among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door." Under the influence of gayer feelings, he wrote what he called the Laughing Song — his pencil drew... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among ; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door.'' Proceed we, however, to the more complicated schemes of modern charity, or at least those of them which... | |
| 1851 - 492 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among ; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door. The doors are opened a quarter of an hour before the beginning of each service, without charge. At... | |
| 1853 - 444 pages
...they raise to heaven their voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the^eats of heaven amuug ; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the...cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door." To relieve the somowhit lie ivy architecture of the interior of the cathedral, statues and monuments... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, 0i like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among : Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. NIGHT. THE sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine, The birds are silent in their nest,... | |
| William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. NIGHT. '"f^HE sun descending in the west, -A. The evening star does shine ; The birds are silent in... | |
| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among : Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. W. Blake. CXLVI. THE MILK-MAID O' THE FARM. (IN THE DORSET DIALECT.) BE the milk-maid o' the farm :... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, 9 Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among : Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. William Blake. CLXXXIV ON AN ANTIQUE GEM BEARING THE HEADS OF PERICLES AND ASPASIA. This was the ruler... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1869 - 294 pages
...like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among ; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. The children must be singing to-day. I do not see the churches ; I do not hear the children playing... | |
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