The Hudson Illustrated with Pen and Pencil: Comprising Sketches, Local and Legendary, of Its Several Places of Interest, Together with the Route to Niagara Falls : Forming a Companion for the Pleasure TouristT.W. Strong, 1852 - 32 páginas |
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Página 30 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from His hollow hand, And hung His bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Página 30 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime ? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Página 10 - And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings.
Página 10 - ... this was the only occasion throughout that long and sometimes hopeless struggle, that Washington ever gave way, even for a moment, under a reverse of fortune ; and, perhaps, I was the only human being who ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to his temperament. As it was, he recovered himself, before I had perused the communication that gave rise to his emotion ; and when we returned to his staff, not a trace remained on his countenance either of grief or despondency.
Página 10 - Just at this moment the illustrious sun, breaking in all his splendor from behind a high bluff of the Highlands, did dart one of his most potent beams full upon the refulgent nose of the sounder of brass — the reflection of which shot straightway down hissing hot, into the water, and killed a mighty sturgeon that was sporting beside the vessel!
Página 10 - And through their clustering branches dark Glimmers and dies the firefly's spark — Like starry twinkles that momently break Through the rifts of the gathering tempest's rack.
Página 30 - O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ! Yea, what is all the riot man can make, In his short life, to thy unceasing roar ! And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him, Who...
Página 6 - By woody bluff we steal, by leaning lawn, By palace, village, cot, a sweet surprise, At every turn the vision breaks upon; Till to our wondering and uplifted eyes [rise.
Página 3 - Scarce had he buffeted half-way over, when he was observed to struggle violently, as if battling with the spirit of the waters— instinctively he put his trumpet to his mouth, and giving a vehement blast— sank forever to the bottom!
Página 10 - I believe," said Lafayette to me in relating this anecdote, " that this was the only occasion throughout that long and sometimes hopeless struggle that Washington ever gave way, even for a moment, under a reverse of fortune ; and perhaps I am the only human being who ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to his temperament. As it was, he recovered himself before I had perused the communication that...