 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 218 pages
...their homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical minister of Boston, in his Ecclesiastical History of New England,... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 206 pages
...homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. Wliat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical minister of Boston, in his Ecclesiastical History of New England.... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 484 pages
...What sought they thus afar t Bright jewels of the mine 1 The wealth of seas ? — the spoils of war 1 They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They left unstain'd what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! 118 NEW ORLEANS, OR THE SONS OF THE... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 486 pages
...the rocking pines of the forest roar'd : This was their welcome home. What sought they thus afar 1 Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? — the spoils of war t They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pages
...their homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine— The wealth of seas—the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 208 pages
...homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. Wliat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine— The wealth of seas—the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pages
...welcome home ! There were men with hoary hair Amid that pilgrim-band ; Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's...of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war 1 — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod !... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...home. There were men with hoary hair Amid that pilgrim band ; — Why had they come to wither there( Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's...manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youthWhat sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1844 - 602 pages
...the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home ! 7 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! 8 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1844 - 576 pages
...the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home ! 7 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! 8 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they... | |
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Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the... 
