| 1854 - 386 pages
...sun wan extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, '.' J* I' • I • " . Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless Air." * * * » .»•«.*• " The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless,... | |
| William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...pauses.) " I had a dream which was not all a dream. The bright sun was.extinguished; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went,—and came, and brought no day. " The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump,—... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 pages
...start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a S0k let can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. 4. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...blind and black'ning in the moonless aii\. | Morn came, and went1, and came, and brought no day, ;j And men forgot their passions | in the dread Of this their desolation ; ] and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light'. | And they did live by watch'-fires ; | and the thrones,... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...way. 452. I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...came, and went — and came, and brought no day. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations... | |
| 1856 - 518 pages
...DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless,...; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no ilay ; And men forgot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled... | |
| William Cecil Duncan - 1856 - 360 pages
...into outer darkness !" And what a darkness ! The bright sun shall be extinguished ; the stars will " wander darkling in the eternal space, rayless and pathless;" and " the icy earth" will swing "blind and blackening in the moonless air." Morn will come, and go; and come, and bring... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 592 pages
...religion. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream — The bright BUU was extingnish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the iey earth Swung, blind and black'ning, in the moonless air. ***** The crowd was famish'd by degrecs... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...bright sun was + extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, •Hlayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening...dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires; and the thrones, The... | |
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