The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Five hundred years have nearly passed away Since that glad morn, when o'er fair Bethl'hem's plainA light resplendent as the glow ...
A stately church by pious hands erected long ago,Was found to lack a vesper bell, by which the poor might ...
O Thou, who art the source of joy and light, The great Revealer of the will Divine;Thyself Divine, all nature owns ...
This lovely lily, so pure and white,Seems covered o'er with celestial light;As if it grew on the "Tree of Life,"And ...
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Looking o'er this written page, Many blurs and blots are seen;Crooked strokes, at every stage-- Oh, that it again were clean,As at ...
O God, I am ashamed to die, But not the least afraid;Tho' death's dark shadow draweth nigh, Atonement has been madeFor every ...
The well-built house with walls of brick, or stone,May tremble some if struck by the cyclone;The most established saint may ...
I stand to-day on higher ground Than ever reached before,Yet from this summit I have found, Outlined full many more,Which seem to ...
As fought the Paladins of old,With gleaming swords and spirit bold,To thwart the schemes of base Lothar,Give France to Karl ...
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