 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 281825Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - 272 pages
...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...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in... | |
 | Charles Parker Ilsley - American fiction - 1861 - 446 pages
...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...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed Ihe lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems...wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offer'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...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, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And olTcrM to the Mightiest solemn thanks, And supplication.... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - Witness bearing (Christianity) - 1861 - 236 pages
...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 mountain wood : Amidst the cool, and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest, most solemn... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...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;...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the grey old trunks that high in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1862 - 276 pages
...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;...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1862 - 312 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to...solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Mi^ht not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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, s Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.... | |
 | Harry Willard Reninger, Norman Raymond Frederick Maier - English language - 1928 - 212 pages
...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, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication."... | |
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