 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 296 pages
...their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they saug, And the stars heard and the... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...hush, the whispers, as it were, of the first two lines, and then the shout and the exultant music: — Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip (bp. of California.) - 1853 - 318 pages
...canopy ; like the ancient Christians, when, in days of persecution, far away from the abodes of men, " They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer." But we know that the mind and the devotional feelings are reached through the outward senses, and therefore... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...their bark, On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They the true-hearted came ; Not hominem S. TC, which, remembering what manner of man STC was, we read ve And truly beautiful are the stanzas following. The deep hush, the whispers, as it were, of the first... | |
 | 1854 - 822 pages
...countrymen in that land, where — " Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet...come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depth of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer." But that eye which never slumbers, that... | |
 | Jay Samuel Stowell - 1922 - 200 pages
...of exiles," but they came neither willingly nor gladly, but of compulsion. Of them no poet wrote: 13 ''Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding isles of the dim woods rang . To the anthem of the free." And yet there has seemed to be little danger... | |
 | Jay Samuel Stowell - 1922 - 202 pages
...came neither willingly nor gladly, but of compulsion. Of them no poet wrote : 13 "Amidst the storut they sang. And the stars heard, and the sea: And the sounding isles of the dim woods rang To the autheut of the free." Ami yet there has seemed to be little danger... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...bark On the wild New England shore. 8 Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet...the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. , l6 ' > • » . r Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding... | |
 | Laura Rountree Smith - 1923 - 170 pages
...their bark On a wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet...silence and in fear — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang; And the stars heard, and... | |
 | Anna De Koven - 1923 - 232 pages
...wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes They, the true hearted, came. Not with the roll of stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame....silence and in fear, They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the... | |
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Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free... 
