 And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And,...  The Suffolk literary chronicle - Page 241838Full view - About this book
 | Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 pages
...from a deep dream of peace. And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like the lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou ? ' The vision... | |
 | Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - Deaf - 1857 - 672 pages
...mny his tribe increase, Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An Agel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhern bold, And to the presence in the... | |
 | Sunday school assoc - 1858 - 206 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace; And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou ?' The vision... | |
 | 1858 - 256 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Bon Adhem bold ; And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writcst thou?' — The vision... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room — Making it rich and like a lily in...angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writcst thou ?" The vision... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...(may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And, to the presence in the room, he said, "What writest thou?" The vision... | |
 | H. O. Apthorp - Elocution - 1858 - 312 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel writing in a book of gold :— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke, one night, from a deep dream of peace. And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An ansel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben-Adhem bold; And to the presence in the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1859 - 838 pages
...(may hia tribe increase 1) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,...angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, "What writest thon?" — The vision... | |
 | Hiram Fuller - Europe - 1859 - 320 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and, like a lily in bloom,...angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold ; And to the presence in the room he said : ' What writest thou ?' The vision... | |
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