Richard Heber
Richard Heber
Richard Heberwas an English book-collector...
coral golden roll sunny
From Greenland's icy mountains, / From India's coral strand, / Where Afric's sunny fountains / Roll down their golden sand.
beneath breath cool hill lily shady sweet
By cool Siloam's shady rill / How sweet the lily grows! / How sweet the breath beneath the hill / Of Sharon's dewy rose!
blindness blow bows gifts god heathen kindness lavish man prospect soft spicy though vain wood
What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.