 Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 24by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...which the character of the Redeemer is so explicitly declared. Pope thus reproduces the subject:— " Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers; Prepare...reply ; The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity." The strain is grand and striking; yet striking as it is, it falls short in force of the original. The... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of her breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance,...the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfume the skiea '. Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers... | |
 | James Merrick - 1815 - 242 pages
...fills the See peace o'er earth her olive wand extend, And white-rob'd innocence from heav'n descend. Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers, Prepare...God, a God the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. The Savior comes, by ancient bards foretold ! Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...morn ! O spring to light, auspicious Babe ! be born. See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring : See...Saron rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skias! Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers; Prepare the way ! a God, a God appears ! A God,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...morn! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, O spring to light, auspicious babe be born! See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests...on the mountains dance: See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers;... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...Carmel's flow'ry top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers ; xi. 3, 4. ] Prepare the way ! a God, a God appears : A God ! a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. I .<> earth receives him from the bending skies ! Sink down, ye mountains ;... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...Carmel,s flow,ry top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers ; xi. 3, 4. ] Prepare the way ! a God, a God appears : A God ! a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim llf approaching Deity. Lo earth receives him from the bending skies ! Sink down, ye mountains; and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance, Sec nodding forests on the mountains dance : Sec temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for...thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty lulls reply, The rocks proclaim th* approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies... | |
 | Boston Latin School (Mass.) - 1820 - 378 pages
...dulces ; Cedrifer en Libanus caput altum tollit ad astra, Et luci saltant nutantes montibus altis ; See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's...desert cheers ; Prepare the way ! A God, a God appears ! 30 A God, a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, earth receives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...on the mountains dance: See spicy cloud* from lowly Sharon rise. And Carmel's flow'ry top perfrimes the skies! Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers;...a. God! 'the vocal hills reply; The rocks proclaim th" approaching Deity. Lo, earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains, and,... | |
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