 Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And...  Present Day Papers - Page 181899Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance...ancient, heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee, in their beds ; And fragrance, in thy footing, treads...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...wear The godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before Thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doat preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through Thee are fresL and strong.... | |
 | 1862 - 522 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. • " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Oh ! let my weakness have... | |
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 524 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 522 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : tands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine, and upon that doth preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 290 pages
...contrived his work, that with the selfsame instrument, without a new * See Wordsworth's Ode to Duty : — " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens thro' thee are fresh and strong." Cf. Cowper's Task, bk. vi : — " Some say that in the origin of... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! . I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | 1863 - 220 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
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