| 1840 - 456 pages
...green, of the purest, brightest hue, Set around with waves of snow-white foam, in spray of feathery dew, While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...gorgeous gems, in tribute, at thy feet. Thy reign is of the ancient days—thy sceptre from on high— Thy birth was when the morning stars together sang... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 1841 - 590 pages
...green, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with waves of snow-white foam, and spray of feathery dew: While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...gorgeous gems, in tribute, at thy feet. Thy reign is of the ancient days—thy sceptre from on high— Thy birth was when the morning stars together sang... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1845 - 396 pages
...foam and sprays of feathery dew; While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thy ample sheet, Aud the rainbow lays its gorgeous gems in tribute at thy feet. Thy reign is of the ancient days, thy sceptre from on high, Thy birth was when the morning stars together sang with... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...green, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with wreaths of snow-white foam and spray of feathery dew; While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...rainbow lays its gorgeous gems in tribute at thy feet. And whether, on thy forest banks, the Indian of the wood, Or since his day, the red man's foe on his... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...green, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with wreaths of snow-white foam and spray of feathery dew; While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...rainbow lays its gorgeous gems in tribute at thy feet. And whether, on thy forest banks, the Indian of the wood, Or since his day, the red man's foe on his... | |
| 1855 - 614 pages
...tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er clearest, purest hue, Set round with waves of snow-whito foam, thine ample sheet, And the rainbow lays its gorgeous gems, in tribute at thy feet. from on high, Thy birth was when the morning stars Thy reign is of the ancient days, tliy sceptre together... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...clearest, purest hue, Set round with wreaths of snow-white foam and spray of feathery dew; While tressos of the brightest pearls float o'er thine ample sheet,...rainbow lays its gorgeous gems in tribute at thy feet. And whether, on thy forest banks, the Indian of the wood, Or since his day, the red man's foe on his... | |
| Niagara - 1858 - 102 pages
...emerald, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with waves of snow-white foam, and spray of feathery dew; While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...tribute at thy feet Thy reign is from the ancient days, thy sceptre from on high; Thy birth was when the distant stars first lit the glowing sky; Tiie... | |
| Pietas - Anthologies - 1861 - 316 pages
...green, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with waves of snow-white foam, and spray of feathery dew ; While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...gorgeous gems in tribute at thy feet. Thy reign is of the ancient days, thy sceptre from on high, Thy birth was when the morning stars together sang for... | |
| George Linnaeus Banks - 1862 - 174 pages
...green, of the clearest, purest hue, Set round with waves of snow-white foam, and spray of feathery dew. While tresses of the brightest pearls float o'er thine...gorgeous gems, in tribute, at thy feet. Thy reign is of the ancient days, thy sceptre from on high, Thy birth was when the morning stars together sang with... | |
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