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" 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... "
The Edinburgh annual register - Page 367
1823
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 91, Part 1

1821 - 712 pages
...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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Prolusiones academicæ

Cambridge univ - 1852 - 348 pages
...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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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 1

1821 - 438 pages
...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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The Christian Spectator, Volume 3

1821 - 694 pages
...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...jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep. And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 91, Part 1; Volume 129

1821 - 766 pages
...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, Each mother held aloft...jubilee to keep, The first made anthem rang. On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first Poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 1

1821 - 772 pages
...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...mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God. Methiuks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the...
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The Universalists' Hymn-book: A New Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for the ...

1821 - 328 pages
...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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The Literary Journal, Volume 1

1821 - 770 pages
...sign. O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child And when its yellow lustre smiled To bless the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1823 - 400 pages
...undelnged earth Heaven's covenant then didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er...the bow of GOD. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the...
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A Collection of Poems: Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie - 1823 - 388 pages
...How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft...the bow of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang, On earth delivertt from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the...
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