Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many... From Thomas the Rhymer to Richard Gall - Page 339by James Grant Wilson - 1875Full view - About this book
| James Anderson - Scotland - 1722 - 440 pages
...the Christian volume is the theme, How guilt lefs blood for guilty man was fiied ; How He, wno .ore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon...The precepts sage they wrote, to many a land : How He, who lone in Patmos banifhed, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...Heaven's avenging ire } Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...How guiltless blood, for guilty man was shed ] How be, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head ; How his first followers... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...holy teen that tune the sacred lyre. K k 2 Religio«. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, t .' How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How...first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage thcy wrote to many a land : How he, who lone in Patrnos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 636 pages
...Isaiah's wilJ, seraphic fire ; Oí other holy wen that tune the sacred, lyre. KM I Perhaps the Clirirtiin volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty...He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on trarth whereon to lay hi» head: How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphie fire , Or other holy seen that tune the sacred I; re K fc 2 Religion. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, » How...guilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the iecond name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head i How his first followers and servants iped ;... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; <. . , Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...The precepts sage, they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...Heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...The precepts sage, they wrote to many a land; How //c, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...sped, The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avening ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; 372 ROBERT BURNS. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...The precepts sage they wrote to many a land : How he, who lone in Fatmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom... | |
| 1809 - 604 pages
...penned the following lines, humble yet exquisite as they are. « Perhaps the Christian Volume is their theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed,...second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head.' He who does not feel his heart burn within him while h« reads this passage may well suspect that he... | |
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