 And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath...  The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio - Pagina 59door Henry Clapp - 1846 - 208 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 550 pagina’s
...fire. It shall be "A eathedral boundless as our won diT, Whoso quenehless lamp the sun and moon gupply; Its choir the winds and waves, it.s organ thunder, Its dome the sky." Magnifieent seene ! Yet more magnificent eitizens ! The antudilnvian will be there, whose prospective... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pagina’s
...the feebleness of mortal hand ; But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planrTd ! To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Whose choirs the winds and waves ; whose organ, thunder ; Whose dome the sky ! HORACE SMITH. IAMBIC... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pagina’s
...call to prayer ; Not to the dome where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planned ; To the cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply, Its choir the... | |
 | D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pagina’s
...to prayer — Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane most catholic and solemn Which God...waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky. There, amid solitude and shade, I wander Through the green aisles, and, stretched upon the sod, Amid the silence... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Association (England) - 1856 - 456 pagina’s
...prayer — Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, Bnt to that fane most catholic and solemn Which God hath...boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the son and moon supply, Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky. There, amid... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pagina’s
...the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath plann'd. To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose...its organ thunder, Its dome the sky. There, as in shade and solitude I wander, Through the green aisles, or stretch'd upon the sod, Awed by the silence,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 738 pagina’s
...she quoted Horace Smith's fine lines : ' To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose shining lamps the sun and moon supply : Its choir, the winds...and waves ; its organ, thunder ; Its dome, the sky.' The ' choir of winds and waves ' was chaunting its majestic anthem. Nature was grand, calm, and beneficent.... | |
 | 1858 - 930 pagina’s
...this — that it is unchanged, though all else be unstable. But much more solemn is "That cathedral, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply; Its...and waves — its organ thunder, Its dome the sky." Young's poetry may not inaptly be compared to the grand nnd solemn in Nature. Those who wish life to... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1858 - 310 pagina’s
...polished pillar in That Cathedral boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the moon and stars supply ; Its choir the winds and waves ; its organ, thunder, Its dome the sky. My brothers, thus I say to myself: As life goes on, and the one thing in any moment unchanged, is change... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1858 - 318 pagina’s
...polished pillar in That Cathedral boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the moon and stars supply ; Its choir the winds and waves ; its organ, thunder. Its dome the sky. My brothers, thus I say to myself: As life goes on, and the one thing in any moment unchanged, is change... | |
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