 | 1830 - 222 pagina’s
...little thought how pure a light In time should gather round that day; How love should keep their memory bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green...now untrod, shall thrill With reverence when their uamcs arc breathed; Till when tho sun, with softer fires, Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep, The children... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pagina’s
...New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free— Our fathers—trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love sh6uld keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ;... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 444 pagina’s
...thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, Witli years, should gather round that day ; How love should...bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway.• * Bryant's Poems, p. 204. On an eminence above the town is a cemetery, where the remains of some of... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 888 pagina’s
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, shuukl gather round that day ; How love should keep their...bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway.* * Bryant's Poems, ji. 204. On an eminence above the town is a cemetery, where the remains of some of... | |
 | James Thacher - 1835 - 418 pagina’s
...on New England's strand, When first, the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light With years, should...realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; and greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions now untrod, shall thrill... | |
 | James Thacher - 1835 - 426 pagina’s
...should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; and greener still Shall round their spreading fame be...wreathed, And regions now untrod, shall thrill With reycrencc, when their names are breathed. Till where the sun, with softer fires, Looks on the vast... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 502 pagina’s
...caravels resembled dark, shapeless specks, on the unquiet element that washed their hulls. CHAPTER XVI. " They little thought how pure a light. With years,...bright— How wide a realm their sons should sway." BRYANT. THE night that succeeded, was one of very varied feelings among the adventurers. As soon as... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 556 pagina’s
...caravels resembled dark, shapeless specks, on the unquiet element that washed their hulls. CHAPTER XVI. " They little thought how pure a light, With years,...keep their memories bright — How wide a realm their sou should sway." BRYANT. THE night that succeeded, was one of very varied feelings among the adventurers.... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 pagina’s
...consequences involved in the vast work which they were about commencing in the world's reformation. They little thought how pure a light, With years,...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. But results have followed in the wake of the Mayflower, auspiciously affecting the condition of millions;... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pagina’s
...the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light How love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. With years should gather round that day ; Green are their bays, but greener still And regions, now... | |
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They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day : How love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. 
