What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom... The Poetical Work of Mrs. Felicia Hemans - Seite 67von Mrs. Hemans - 1828Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 344 Seiten
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine...Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they foundFreedom to worship God. THE SPIRITS MYSTERIES.... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 Seiten
...There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar 1 — Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas ? the...ground, The soil where first they trod : They have left unstained what there they foundFreedom to worship God ! LESSON XCVI. Hymn for the second Centennial... | |
| 1840 - 368 Seiten
...What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine T The wealth of seas, the spoils of war 7 — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy...they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they foundFreedom to worship God ! THE GRAVE OF EORNER. GREEN wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest, Thou... | |
| Thomas Gage - 1840 - 530 Seiten
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine" And should not this, at every necessary expense and labor, be our grand object, both for ourselves... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1840 - 186 Seiten
...with much diffidence, to the indulgence of tlie courteous reader. , WITCH OF NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. " Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there they found, — Freedom to worship God." NEW ENGLAND scenery is said to be deficient... | |
| 1846 - 872 Seiten
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they found CHASING BUTTERFLIES! " I HAVE you now !" exclaimed Henry, as running with all his speed he came close... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 Seiten
...Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they foundFreedom to worship God. THE SPIRIT'S MYSTERIES.... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 Seiten
...Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they foundFreedom to worship God. THE SPIRIT'S MYSTERIES.... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 Seiten
...And the rocking pines of the forest roar'd : This was their welcome home. What sought they thus afart Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas ? —...holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They left unstaiu'd what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! 118 NEW ORLEANS, OR THE SONS OF THE... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 218 Seiten
...their homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical minister of Boston, in his Ecclesiastical History of New England,... | |
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