 | Bliss Carman - 1927 - 720 Seiten
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? Let me, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, ' Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if it find... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 Seiten
...stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power 15 And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? Let me, at least, m Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if it find... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 Seiten
...tops, stole over him and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect...crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised ? " THE OESURAL PAUSE. The " csesura " is a peculiar pause of the sense in the line •which breaks... | |
 | William James Rivers - 2006 - 288 Seiten
...Tom Chiltree recited it all, in a soft melodious tone. Perhaps no words of praise uttered that night "among the crowd, and under roofs that our frail hands have raised," found more acceptance at the throne of God. Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns; Thou... | |
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And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible... 
