"Zion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... streams we sat and wept, When Zion we thought on, In midst thereof we hanged our harps ...
— Scotland's Mark on America • George Fraser Black
... The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare: Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... parturient function toward these principles of future life and power. Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building. But if their millennium went by, like the rest, and left men still human; if they, like so many saints and martyrs before them, listened ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... Corn and Wine; for in this place they met with abundance of what they had sought for in all their Pilgrimage. Here they heard voices from out of the City, loud voices, saying, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh, behold his reward is with him. Here all the inhabitants of the Country called them, The holy People, The redeemed of the Lord, ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan
... to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King comes to thee, Meek, and mounted upon an ass, And upon a colt, the foal of ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
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