 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 halaman
...sand: The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, Aml traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice:...expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth." Chaldiea's seers are good, But here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood, Untold and... | |
 | New mitre-hymnal, William John Hall - 1875 - 278 halaman
...sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice...expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth." Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful... | |
 | Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - 1875 - 768 halaman
...: The fingers of a man — A solitary hand — Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice...expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth." Chaldsea's seers are good, But here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 halaman
...The monarch saw, and shook, And hade no more rejoice: 4I6 4I7 " Let the men of lore appear, The wbo>t of the earth. And expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth." Chaldrea's seers are good, lliu here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood, I' uiold and... | |
 | Education Department,London - 1876 - 1010 halaman
...Paper. SECTION I. Parse the words in italics in the following passages : The monarch saw, and shouk, And bade no more rejoice, All bloodless waxed his...wisest of the earth, And expound the words of fear That mar our royal mirth. Envy is of all crimes the basest ; for malice and anger are appeased with... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 halaman
...lie., he be- All bloodless waxed * his look, came pale with fear. And tremulous his voice- ,o cloud. " Let the men of lore * appear, The wisest of the earth,...* the words of fear, Which mar * our royal mirth." 25 Chaldea's seers * are good, But here they have no skill ; And the unknown letters stood Untold and... | |
 | Masonic minstrel - 1877 - 494 halaman
...if on sand The fingers of a man, A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The Monarch saw and shook, And bade no more rejoice, All bloodless wax'd his look, And tremulous his voice : Let the men of lore appear, The wisest of the earth, And... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 halaman
...sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice ; All bloodless wax'd his look, And tremulous his voice : — ' Let the men of lore appear, 'The wisest of the earth,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 halaman
...on santi ; The fingers of a man, a solitary hand, Along the letters ran and traced them like a wand. illage Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little wax'd his look, and tremulous his voice : ' Let the men of lore appear, the wisest of the earth, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 290 halaman
...sand: The fingers of a man; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice...expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth." Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill; And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful... | |
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In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; A solitary hand Along the letters ran And traced them like a wand. 
