 A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied...  Works - Page 329by Sir Walter Scott - 1923Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...high, That mocks the organ's melody. Унт doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, v That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Tatk'd high and hard — but witness mine !" Blame ye the llruce ? — hi» brother blamed, But shared... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 460 pages
...still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws. In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard— but witness mine !" — XL Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, Before the gale... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 466 pages
...between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine !" — XI. Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, Before the gale... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...Child of clay! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine!"— P. 14-0. We would bow with veneration to the powerful... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...still between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard—but witness mine !"— ' Merrily, merrily goes the bark,' — That guard famed... | |
 | 1815 - 612 pages
...between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, .i That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay I Thy humble powers that stately shrine % Task'd high and hard — but witness mine !"— (P. 140,... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...still, between eaph awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance...To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might $eem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay J Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 498 pages
...between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and: high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, ..'•.-,. • . i That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 468 pages
...between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, 3 In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old 1 iiiui's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 338 pages
...hetween each awfnl panse, From the high vanlt an answer draws,, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Natnre's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thon done, frail child of clay t Thy hnmhle powers that... | |
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