 Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die — but see, again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.  The American Quarterly Observer - Page 320edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever. Written on thy works, I read 75. The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old...see, again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, ever gay and beautiful youth, In all its beautiful forms. These lofty trees 80. Wave... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...the indwelling life, A visible token of the upholding love That are the soul of this wide universe. My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great...miracle that still goes on In silence round me — the perpetnal work Of thy creation, finish'd yet renew'd For ever. Written on thy works I read The lesson... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...of this wide universe. > ''.., if / .,p* \ii 6 V:U\::! & ,J XV :li "\v ' POETRY OF THE SENTIMENTS. My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of Thy creation, finished, yet renewed For ever. Written on Thy works, I read The lesson of Thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die :... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work — a world. Milton. My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed For ever. WC Bryant. From the throne of the Highest the mandate came forth, From the word of Omnipotent... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 398 pages
...valuable work on the "Earth's Antiquity," by the Bev. J. Gray, rector of Dibdeu. CHAPTER III. CREATION. " My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of thy creation finished, yet renewed For ever." J In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." — GEN. i . 1. THE Bible begins... | |
 | Thomas Scott Lambert - Anatomy - 1854 - 474 pages
...on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes." BOOK II. APPARATUS OF ORGANIC LIFE. *' My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed For ever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo I all grow old and die —... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe. My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finish'd, yet renew'd For ever. Written on thy works, I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo! all... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...scarcely felt ; — the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with thee. 8. My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...thy works, I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! nil grow old and die, — but see, again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay " Youth presses... | |
 | Whellan, William, & Co - Northumberland (England) - 1855 - 1010 pages
...His benevolence and forethought, in storing up for the use of man a vast magazine of fossil fuel. " My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of THY creation, finished, yet renewed For ever.'1 — BBIANT. THE COLLIERIES. Of all the coal-fields in England, that of Northumberland mid... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe. " My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great...perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Tor ever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. . Lo ! all grow old and die —... | |
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