| Eben Eugene Rexford - 1907 - 372 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one ! To him the palm is a gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine, — House and raiment and food and wine ! And, in the hour of his great release, His need of the palm shall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
| John Augustine Zahm - 1910 - 510 pages
...Orinoco, is for the child of the forest "A gift divine, "Wherein all uses of man combine, — j, " House and raiment and food and wine." When contemplating....species of food-producing palms, we are forcibly remindedu)f the statement of Linnaeus that the first home of ; our race was somewhere in the tropics.... | |
| Nevin Otto Winter - 1910 - 502 pages
...aristocrats of this family. The native finds this tropical tree most useful, for " To him the palm is a gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine, House and raiment and food and wine." The tree which bears the Brazil nuts of commerce is one of the highest of the Amazonian trees and overtops... | |
| Larkin Dunton - 1911 - 186 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one ! To him the palm is a gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine, — House, and raiment, and food, and wine. And, in the hour of his great release, His need of the palm shall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
| John Walter Davis - 1912 - 412 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one! To him the palm is a gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine— House, and raiment, and food, and wine. And, in the hour of his great release, His need of the palm shall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
| John Augustine Zahm - 1916 - 618 pages
...Indian Sea, on the isles of balm," of which Whittier sings, is to the children of the tropical forests A gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine, — House and raiment and food and wine. How hard would not be the lot of the traveler in the equinoctial regions were it not for the ubiquitous... | |
| John Augustine Zahm - 1916 - 628 pages
...Indian Sea, on the isles of balm," of which Whittier sings, is to the children of the tropical forests A gift divine, Wherein all uses of man combine, — House and raiment and food and wine. How hard would not be the lot of the traveler in the equinoctial regions were it not for the ubiquitous... | |
| Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 888 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day Is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one ! To him the palm Is a gift divine. Wherein all uses of man combine — House and raiment and food and wine ! And, in the hour of hi.s great release, His need of the palm shall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
| 1892 - 376 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed аз one. To him the palm is a gift divine Wherein all uses of man combine, — House, and raiment, and food, and wine! And in the hour of his great release, His need of the palm ehall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one! To him the palrn is 2W2 1 0 $ And, in the hour of his great release, His need of the palms shall only cease With the shroud wherein... | |
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