 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...^ hen storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou artStill seem as (o my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy...Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when Г dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philusophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station given,...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that opties teach onfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dream of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant how?... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station given,...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. 4 , Can all that opties teach unfold Thy form to please me so, f As when I dream of gems and gold Hid... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...sky, When storms prepare to part, I oak not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! Ami yet, fair bow, no fhbling dreams. But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...A midway station given Tor happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! N And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 250 pages
...sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art— Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art — ' Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seen, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. 76 THE RAINBOW. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems... | |
 | American periodicals - 1821 - 370 pages
...artStill seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwiit the earth and heaven. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me to, As when I dreamt of gems ftnd gold Hid in thy radiant bow ;' When Seience from Creation's faee... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given,...optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dream'd of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
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When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 
