That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific: have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown... The Winter Evening Book - Page 267by William Chambers - 1837 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
| Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - 386 pages
...to the eye ; Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges. * * * * Man hath no part in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the...And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopea With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...With herbage, planted therA with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor F:>r this magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers...multitude Rival the constellations! The great heavens Swni to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nnrer vault, and of a tenderer blue, Thin trr.it which... | |
| Derk Buddingh - 1853 - 842 pages
...Into the calm Paeifie; — have ye fann'sd A nobler or a lovelier seene than this? Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smooth'sd these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With berbage, plantod them with islanil groves,... | |
| Martha McCannon Thomas - 1854 - 410 pages
...Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific ! Have you found A nobler or a lovelier scene than this ? ****** The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And...hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For the magnificent temple of the sky, With flowers whose glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations... | |
| 1855 - 1416 pages
...beared And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slope* With herbage, planted them with (aland groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting...glory and whose multitude Rival the Constellations ! Thoughts of those who may have peopled those wastes in former times crowd upon the poet, and give... | |
| 1855 - 1428 pages
...than this? •••••••. The hand that built the firmament hath beared And smoothed those verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage,...hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor for this tnaimificent temple of the sky— With flowers whose gluryund whose multitude Kival the Constellations... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 310 pages
...glide Into the calm Pacific—have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this ? Man hath no part in all this glorious work : The hand that built the...heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky— With flowers... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...With herbage, planted them with island groves, Anil hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor Fur at : But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes...you. When Hope was sinking in dismay. And glooms Sí^m to stoop down upon the scene in love,— A nearer vault, and of a tenderer blue, Thin that which... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fann'd A nobler, or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no part in all this glorious work ! The hand that built the...their slopes With herbage, planted them with island grove», And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For this magnificent temple of the sky —... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fann'd A nobler, or a lorelier scene than thil? Man hath no part In all this glorious work ! The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smooth'd these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves.... | |
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