 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 pages
...; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. Prisoners' Evening Hymn. 45 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! We will leave unstain'd what here they... | |
 | William Brigham - 1836 - 52 pages
...the savage foe, and finally to establish, sustain, and transmit, the institutions we now enjoy. ' Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod...what there they found — Freedom to worship God.' An incorrect estimate of the future growth of the country is apparent in every period of our history... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afnr? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas? the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pages
...serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thns afar? Bright jewels of the mine 1 The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The »oil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they... | |
 | Mary Clark - 1836 - 192 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, .And the fiery heart of youth. Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? the spoils of war ?— What sought they thus afar? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground,— They... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 492 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Samuel Wilton Rix - 1837 - 278 pages
...difficult to conceive of an expedition more truly noble and momentous in its objects and results. " What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war ?— They sought a faith's pure shrine. * Wils. Diss. Ch. i. 33. f Mather's New England, bip 6. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first... | |
 | Samuel Wilton RIX - 1837 - 280 pages
...difficult to conceive of an expedition more truly noble and momentous in its objects and results. " What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. * Wils. Diss. Ch. i. 33. f Mather's New England, bip 6. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 416 pages
...There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar 1 Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...waves' foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared : — This was their welcome home. And this was holy ground, — The soil where first they trod. They...what there they found, — FREEDOM TO WORSHIP GOD ! EXERCISES ON TONE. MONOTONE. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose... | |
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What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom... 
