The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and... The United States Literary Gazette - Page 261824Full view - About this book
| Robert L. Harford - 1885 - 304 pages
...light. And, away there in the olden time, when the kingly patriarchs trod the New World, when, as yet, "the groves were God's first temples," ere man learned to hew the shaft and lay the architecture, Jacob, as he journeyed from Beer-sheba to Huram, at nightfall, like a tired wanderer... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...British Druids. 6 beacon, signal-fire: connected with beckon. 0 voyager of time. Explain the metaphor. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft,1 and lay the architrave,2 And spread the roof above them ; ere he framed The lofty vault,3 to... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...the solemn wood.that is, the British Druids. 5 beacon, signal-fire: connected with beckon. 300 3G1 THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft,1 and lay the architrave,2 And spread the roof above them ; ere he framed The lofty vault,3 to... | |
| S. S. Hamill - 1886 - 390 pages
...Pitch, Slow Movement, Effusive Form, Orotund Quality, Median Stress. God's First Temples. WO BRYANT. 1. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll buck The sound of anthems, in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered... | |
| 1886 - 746 pages
...Poet of Nature, Bryant, in the opening of his ''Forest Hymn," one of the finest of all his fine poems: "The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...spread the roof above them; ere he framed The lofty vauit, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems." A platform made of logs, faced or evened by the... | |
| 1886 - 552 pages
...were God's first temples. Kre man learned To hew the shaít, and lay the architrave." A FOREST HYMN. groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread Ihe roof above them — ere he framed Tbc lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems... | |
| S. S. Hamill - 1886 - 426 pages
...Pitch, Slow Movement, Effusive Form, Orotund Quality, Median Stress. God's First Temples. WC BRYANT. 1. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, Aud spread the roof above them, ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...blessed ? I am His own — doth not my Father care ?" LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON. GOD'S FIRST TEMPLES. HE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, A nd spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound... | |
| Isaac Smithson Hartley - 1889 - 140 pages
...53 SERMON IV, SUNDAY AND ITS LESSONS, 77 SERMON V, DEATH A DEPARTURE, - 103 The groves were God? s first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling... | |
| Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 520 pages
...localities who are unable to be present. 4. SONG. 5. RECITATIONS.— By different pupils. FIRST PL'PIL; " The groves were God's first temples, Ere man learned...architrave And spread the roof above them — ere lie framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The round of anthems, m the darkling wood, Amidst... | |
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