 What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.  Irenæus Letters - Page 317by Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1880 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
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...— Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed splendour, in a cold of twenty or thirty degrees of Renumur. A thousand and ten thousand sparkling... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 786 pages
...— Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unmimbeKd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed In all the glory of sublimcst... | |
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...lighting systems with their joyous beams? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. • Уев ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed In all the glory of sublimest... | |
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...Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Ye« ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed In all the glory of sublimest... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 290 pages
...— Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and array'd splendor, in a. cold of... | |
 | 1821 - 788 pages
...— Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumbcr'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed In all the glory of sublimest... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 284 pages
...— Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and array'd In all the glory of sublimest... | |
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...worthy of praise. The last stanza, and particularly the couplet in italics, is extremely fine. Yes ! a» a drop of water in the sea, All this magnificence...ten thousand worlds compared to Thee? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd hott, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrayed In all the glory of sublimest... | |
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...joyous beams ? But Thou to these art as the noon to night. " Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea, A}1 this magnificence in thee is lost : What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven's unnumber'd host, Though multiplied by myriads, and array 'd In all the glory of sublimest... | |
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