 How beautiful the sky, how bright the sunshine, what "floods of delirious music" pour from the throats of birds, how sweet the fragrance of earth and tree and blossom! The first hour of convalescent freedom seems rich recompense for all pain and gloom...  First Through the Grand Canyon - Page 252by John Wesley Powell - 1915 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...filled the air with its loathsome burthen, at last goes out into the open field, what a world he sees! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine; what...Something like this are the feelings we experience to night. Ever before us has been an unknown danger, heavier than immediate peril. Every waking hour... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1875 - 466 pages
...filled the air with its loathsome burthen, at last goes out into the open field, what a world he sees! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine; what "floods of delirious music" pour-from the throats of birds; how sweet the fragrance of earth, and tree, and blossom! The first... | |
 | George Wharton James - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1900 - 448 pages
...what a world he sees ! I low beautiful the sky! how bright the sunshine! what ' floods of delicious music ' pour from the throats of birds ! how sweet...like this are the feelings we experience tonight. Kver before us has been an unknown danger, heavier than immediate peril. Every waking hour passed in... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...has filled the air with its loathsome burden, at last goes into the open field, what a world he sees! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine; what...of convalescent freedom seems rich recompense for all—pain, gloom, terror. Something like this are the feelings we experience tonight. Ever before... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...filled the air with its loathsome burthen, at last goes into the open field, what a world he sees ! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine; what...delirious music" pour from the throats of birds; how 168 sweet the fragrance of earth and tree, and blossom ! The first hour of convalescent freedom seems... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...filled the air with its loathsome burden, at last goes out into the open field, what a world he sees! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine ; what...of convalescent freedom seems rich recompense for all—pain, gloom, terror. Something like this are the feelings we experience to-night. Ever before... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...world he sees ! How beantiful the sky, how bright the sunshine, what " floods of delirions mnsic " pour from the throats of birds, how sweet the fragrance of earth and tree and blossom ! The first honr of convalescent freedom seenis rich recompense for all pain and gloom and terror. Something like... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...world he sees ! How beantifnl the sky, how bright the snnshine, what " floods of delirions mnsic" ponr from the throats of birds, how sweet the fragrance of earth and tree and blossom ! The first honr of convalescent freedom seems rich recompense for all pain and gloom and terror. Something like... | |
 | Edward Dolnick - History - 2009 - 386 pages
...filled the air with its loathsome burthen, at last goes out into the open field, what a world he sees! How beautiful the sky; how bright the sunshine; what...rich recompense for all — pain, gloom, terror." Powell and all his men were beside themselves with happiness and relief. "Ever before us has been an... | |
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