 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without ail hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 pages
...coneluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bercav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...concluded by such expostulation and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created Beam, and thou great Word " Let there be light,...over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | York city, musical festival - 1825 - 100 pages
...welcome day ; Why thus depriv'd thy prime decree ? Sun, moon and stars are dark to me. » CHORUS. O first created beam ! and thou great word ! Let there be Light ! and light was over all : One hear'uly blaze shone round this earthly ball ; To thy dark servant life by light afford. RECITATIVE—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou, great word, Let there bo light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...poem. DUNSTER. Ver. 80. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be...;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon. Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! O first-created beam, and thoa great word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant inlerlunar... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...That cheers the heart of gods or men. "Which cheereth God or man." — Jud. ix. 12. [1. 64.] O first created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was over all. "And God said, 'let there be light,' and there was light." [I. 258.] Why are his gifts desirable to... | |
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Let there be lig;ht, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
