Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast... Poems - Page 22by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
| Alfred Spencer Patton - Baptists - 1858 - 330 pages
...king's business."— Dan. viii. 27. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell with...once more the voice of Christ say * Peace.' Peace 1 and no longer from its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies : But beautiful... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. IN the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadowlands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg,... | |
| Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 pages
...picture presented itself, and with a faith borne aloft on the strong pinions of the poet, I repeated : ' Down the dark future through long generations, The...of the Immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.' " Perhaps I ought to apologize for troubling you with these sentiments, but if opinions are worth anything... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! l Down the dark future, through long generations, The...songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love ariae. MAIDENHOOD. Maiden ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in... | |
| Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 pages
...PSALM XLVI. (251) |)tiut on tart IT. DOWN the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell with...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. LONGFELLOW. (252) Cunts for Congregational (253) Cfcoral. -P^ I o ISt (254) a llgpSjpjipl t=t*r S IS... | |
| Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 pages
...itself, and with a faith that seemed borne aloft on the strong pinions of the poet, I repeated : ' Down the dark future through long generations, The...; And like a bell with solemn sweet vibrations, I bear once more the voice of Christ say ' Peace.' Peace ! And no longer from its brazen portals, The... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Hymns, English - 1859 - 532 pages
...generations, The sounds of war grow fainter, and then cease ; * Sing to Savannah, on opposite page. Peaco! and no longer, from its brazen portals, The blast...organ shakes the skies: But beautiful as songs of tho immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. LOXOFELLOW. 1013. IDs.* FATHER divine! this deadening... | |
| Caroline Snowden Guild - Hymns - 1859 - 336 pages
...believe; help thou mine unbelief." DOWN the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell with...sweet vibrations, . I hear once more the voice of Chrift say, " Peace ! " Peace! and no longer, from its brazen portals The blaft of war's great organ... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1859 - 688 pages
...And like a bell with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" 2 Peace ! and no longer, from its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the sides ; But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of. love arise. 499. LM 1 LORD,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! NUREMBERG. IN the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian... | |
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