| Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1918 - 464 psl.
...allegiance to the Creator and Sustainer of life, echoing the sentiment of that princely messenger of God: "As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1918 - 464 psl.
...allegiance to the Creator and Sustainer of life, echoing the sentiment of that princely messenger of God: "As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - 1884 - 302 psl.
...favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 psl.
...Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver- wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| 1890 - 562 psl.
...the sea and the rains and the sun, God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sightoutof blindness and purity out of a stain. As the marsh-hen...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| 1890 - 542 psl.
...mightily won God outof knowledge and good outof infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity outof a stain. As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies .In the freedom that fills... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1891 - 316 psl.
...length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn. Yc marshes, how candid and simple arid nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts - 1891 - 728 psl.
...breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn. Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-with holding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatnoss of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1891 - 322 psl.
...and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the seal Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1891 - 314 psl.
...the sea and the rains and the sun, C spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won d out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And...the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills... | |
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