 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1841 - 766 pages
...the wilderness. On that bleak, frozen rock, they raised an altar at once to freedom and to God. "Amid the storm they sang; And the stars heard, and the sea, And the founding aisles of the dim wood rang With the anlhem of the free." Surely, this is the spirit most... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...the true-hearted came : Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence, and in fear :...storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; The ocean eagle soared From his nest, by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...true-hearted, came, Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sounds of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; They...the desert's gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer. 3. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim... | |
 | J. Cypress - American poetry - 1842 - 260 pages
...the first American pilgrims trod, with fearful feet. the deck of the preciousfreighted May flower. " Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods,rang To the anthem of the free !" ******* Where are all the old hymn tunes that the churches... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 pages
...the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the... | |
 | George Barstow - New Hampshire - 1842 - 504 pages
...They were not distinguished for literature or religion. They did not come, like the pilgrims, Breaking "the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer." Yet they were, like them, a bold and hardy few. Forsaking their English homes in quest of better fortune,... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...the true-hearted, came, Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; They...gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storms they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1844 - 576 pages
...silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. 5 Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and...aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. 6 The ocean-eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. 5 Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and...aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. 6 The ocean-eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest... | |
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Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came: Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty... 
