 | W. J. Lake - 1858 - 182 sider
...houses a mile away ; raised and removed millstones ; broke down the church spire, which was of stone. " Oft rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll From steep to steep ; loud- thundering they come; A wintry waste in dire confusion all ; And herds,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 sider
...ghosts, they howl. Among those hilly regions, where embraced In peaceful vales the happy Orisons dwell; Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll. From steep to steep, loud-thundering down they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all; And herds,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 sider
...ghosts, they howl. Among those hilly regions, where, embrac'd In peaceful vales, the happy Grisons dwell, Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll. From steep to steep, loud-thundering, down tui-y come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all; And herds,... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 sider
...AN AVALANCHE. AMONG those hilly regions where, embraced In peaceful vales, the happy Grisons dwell ; Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll. From steep to steep, loud thundering down they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all ; And herds,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1869 - 178 sider
...they howl. Among those hilly regions, where embraced In peaceful vales the happy Orisons dwell; 435 Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll, From steep to steep, loud-thundering ^own they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all ; And herds,... | |
 | Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 sider
...they howl. Among those hilly regions, where embraced 415 In peaceful vales the happy Grisons dwell ; Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll ; From steep to steep, loud thundering down they come, A wintry waste, in dire commotion all ; 420... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 sider
...ghosts, they howl. Among those hilly regions where, embrac'd In peaceful vales, the happy Grisons dwell ; Oft. rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll. From steep to steep, loud-thundering, down they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all ; And herds,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 sider
...descend." ; Among those hilly regions, where, embraced In peaceful vales, the happy Grisons dwell, Oft rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll," 2. 8. " Where the Rhine, Branched out in many a long canal, extends, From every province swarming,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 sider
...they howl. Among those hilly regions, where embraced In peaceful vales the happy Grisons dwell, 415 Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll. From steep to steep, loud-thundering, down they come, A wintry waste in dire commotion all ; And herds,... | |
 | Léon Alexandre Morel - 1895 - 722 sider
...troops descend '. Among those hilly regions, where embraced In peaceful vales the happy Grisons dwell, Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll 2. There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, narredby the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams... | |
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And sometimes whole brigades of marching troops, Or hamlets sleeping in the dead of night, Are deep beneath the smothering ruin whelm'd. 
