 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 478 sider
...verse is imitated from Herbert's poem on Grace. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy. Before I understood this place,...a white, celestial thought, — When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first love. And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse... | |
 | 1837 - 646 sider
...conception and in the expression : — " Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy ; Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...ought, But a white celestial thought — * * * ' * When on some gilded cloud, or flower, My gazing soul could dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 sider
...verse is imitated from Herbert's poem on Grace. THE EETREAT. Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy. Before I understood this place,...Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought, — When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 sider
...cue Of a full feast, and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place,...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; - - , — i When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from... | |
 | 1842 - 818 sider
...very life of things. Happy those early days when I Shrined in my angel infancy! Ere I understood thin place Appointed for my second race : Or taught my soul to fancy aught, But a white celestial thought. When on some gilded cloud or flower, My piling soul would dwell... | |
 | 1849 - 608 sider
...passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early dayes when I stil:. '.i in my Angell-infancy ! Eefore I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 sider
...cue Of a full feast, and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPV those early days, when I Sinned in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place,...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 sider
...this passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early daye* when I Shin'd in ray Angell-infaucy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought I'.ut a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet 1 had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
 | 1850 - 560 sider
...into the mansions of eternal glory."— Dr. South. THE RETREAT. Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second race; Or tanght my soul to fancy aught Bnt a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile... | |
 | 1850 - 544 sider
...early youth. Nothing that he was afterwards called upon to witness or mingle with, entirely Before 1 understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first love;... | |
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Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse... 
