 Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many...  The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 293by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to heaven's eternal King, The saint,... | |
 | Rev. David Hay - 1854 - 216 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. " Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command." And the Bible is alike the book for child and parent.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...and wailing cry; Or wrapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...Patmos banished, Saw, in the sun, a mighty angel stand; Aud heard great Bab'1on's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Burns. Look, Christian! in thy bible,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; BURNS. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone in Pattnos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...recorded these bitter and distempered complaints was the author of the following exquisite lines : — " Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he who lone in Fatmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand. And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...recorded these bitter and distempered complaints was the author of the following exquisite lines : — " Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; How be who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to heaven's eternal King, The saint,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaia-h's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to heaven's eternal King, The saint,... | |
 | Alexander Blaikie - 1855 - 378 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bub' Ion's doom pronounc'd by HeavVs command. Then kneeling down, to heaven's Eternal King, The saint,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lou's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KING, The Saint,... | |
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