 | Richard Hayman - 2003 - 261 Seiten
...the proper reverence for holiness. In 'Forest Hymn' (1825) the forest was the primordial church: The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To...The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood Amidst its cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. The... | |
 | Craig R. Elevitch - 2004 - 526 Seiten
...expressed the American, or New World, version of the forest as a form of primitive church or temple: The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft and lay the architectrave And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll... | |
 | Judith H. O'Toole - 2005 - 160 Seiten
...Nature without Man The groves were God's first temples, Kre man learned To IK-\V tin- shaft, and lav the- architrave, And spread the roof above them —...ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll hack The sound of' anthems; in the darkling wood. Amidst the eool and silence, lie knelt down. Anil... | |
 | James A. Duke - 2007 - 552 Seiten
...Creator. William Cullen Bryant beautifully praised the cedars, clearly predicting my sentiments: "The groves were God's first temples, Ere man learned To hew the shaft . . ." Solomon, in one of the first recorded "botany lectures," spoke of trees "from the cedar that... | |
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THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,... 
