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" Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting... "
Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets: Topically Arranged ... - Page 76
1861 - 338 pages
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 2

Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 pages
...and educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIUHT. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy...
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The Harp and the Cross: A Collection of Religious Poetry

1857 - 372 pages
...thee, redeemed from sin ! The city gates unfold, — enter, O enter in ! TO NIGHT. . J. BLANCO WHITE. MYSTERIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy...
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The Roua Pass: Or, Englishmen in the Highlands

Mercy Grogan - 1857 - 330 pages
...a moonlight night. I will repeat it to you," and in deep thrilling tones he recited it to Esme. " ' Mysterious Night ! When our first parent knew Thee...flame, Hesperus with the host of Heaven came, And, lo ! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 pages
...for a friend, I have made some corrections. It is now as follows : — Mysterious Night ! when OUT first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard...flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widen'd in man's view. "Who could have thought such darkness lay conceal'd Within thy...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11

1863 - 844 pages
...Blanco White which speaks of the starry splendors to which our eyes are blinded by the light of day: — "Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee,...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 pages
...have made some corrections. It is now as follows : — Mysterious Night ! when otrr first parent know Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'nenth a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of tho great setting flame, Hesperus with the...
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Helen and Olga: A Russian Tale

Anne Manning - 1857 - 326 pages
...Mysterious Night,' Miss May," said Mr. Howard impatiently. Helen, faltering a little, repeated — " Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this goodly frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, "neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed...
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Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

William Mountford - 1858 - 536 pages
...shall die, but only to know the more blessedly that God is the Father of us spirits. CHAPTER XIII. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy...
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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...my perils there arose A piety that even from me retired. 354 JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE. NIGHT AND DEATH. MYSTERIOUS night! when our first parent knew Thee...flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo! creation widen'd in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams,...
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Sacred and Household Poetry: Gathered from the Highways and Byways

Elizabeth Dana - 1858 - 228 pages
...shown, Until the fight of faith is o'er^ And earth shall vex the soul no more ! SONNET. BLANCO WHITE* Mysterious Night ! When our first Parent kneW Thee...heard thy name* Did he not tremble for this lovely framej This glorious Canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent deWj Hesperus...
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