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" Within the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild flowers blow, We lift our hearts on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength is bowing ; But, thanks to God, they can't prevent The lone wild... "
The New Monthly Magazine - Page 413
1833
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Friends' Quarterly Examiner, Volume 16

1882 - 620 pages
...hard-working world around him. " Forest Worship " illustrates this fact in a remarkable manner : — "Within the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue...light through broken clouds His speckled breast I see : Beneath the might of wicked men The poor man's worth is dying, But, thank'd be God, in spite...
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The Peerage of Poverty: Or, Learners and Workers in Fields, Farms, and Factories

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 544 pages
...us, great men scorn us, they prevent us from ranging their parks, and we dare not enter their halls ; but Thanks to God, they can't prevent The lone wild flowers from blowing. The music that steals from stately orchestra, and long corridor, or crowded concert-room, is denied...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...sombre yew, 570 571 The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs. DYER. High, high above the tree-tops The lark is soaring...light through broken clouds, His speckled breast I see : Beneath the might of wicked men The poor man's worth is dying ; But, thank'd be God ! in spite...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...winter's reign was o'er ; The bluebells thronged around my feet, But Mary came no more. FOREST WORsHIP. WITHIN the sunlit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild-flowers blow, We lift our hearts on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...reign was o'er ; The bluebells thronged around my feet, But Mary came no more. FOEEST WORSHIP. WITHIM the sunlit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild-flowers blow, We lift our hearts on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

Ebenezer Elliott - 1876 - 504 pages
...waves, Alike surviving battles lost or won ; More deathless than the dust of Marathon. FOREST WORSHIP. WITHIN the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue...; But, thanks to God ! they can't prevent The lone wildflowers from blowing ! High, high above the tree-tops, The lark is soaring free ; Where streams...
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The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, Volume 2

Ebenezer Elliott - 1876 - 496 pages
...waves, Alike surviving battles lost or won; More deathless than the dust of Marathon. FOREST WORSHIP. WITHIN the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue...is bowing; But, thanks to God ! they can't prevent High, high above the tree-tops, The lark is soaring free; Where streams the light through broken clouds...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...winter's rcigii was o'er; The bluebells thronged around my feet, But Mary came no more. FOREST WORSHIP. WITHIN the sunlit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild-flowers blow, We lift our hearts on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...sombre yew, 57° 571 The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs. DYER. High, high above the tree-tops The lark is soaring...light through broken clouds, His speckled breast I see : Beneath the might of wicked men The poor man's worth is dying ; But, thank'd be God ! in spite...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...reign was o'er; The bluebells thronged around my feet, But Mary came no more. FOREST WORSHIP. WlTHIM the sunlit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky. Where fountains flow, and wild-flowers blow, We lift our hearts on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength...
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