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... Night . The Hermit of the Fall - his birth - place and character - his strain - his melancholy and aspirations -his strife , disappointment , doom , fearful deed , remorse , and death . The Fall a wit- ness of Redemption . Sunrise ...
... Night . The Hermit of the Fall - his birth - place and character - his strain - his melancholy and aspirations -his strife , disappointment , doom , fearful deed , remorse , and death . The Fall a wit- ness of Redemption . Sunrise ...
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... night , Make thee their shrine , where even man has paid His homage and revealed his secret heart . A witness of redeeming love art thou , A voice at sunrise , to the gifted soul Of high encouragement , to God of praise And supplication ...
... night , Make thee their shrine , where even man has paid His homage and revealed his secret heart . A witness of redeeming love art thou , A voice at sunrise , to the gifted soul Of high encouragement , to God of praise And supplication ...
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... night , O'er earth's vast acres holding their control , But now ' whelmed ' neath the cataract of Time , And mouldered into human nothingness , Their rest the memory , and their tomb the Past ! When shook by fierce convulsions low they ...
... night , O'er earth's vast acres holding their control , But now ' whelmed ' neath the cataract of Time , And mouldered into human nothingness , Their rest the memory , and their tomb the Past ! When shook by fierce convulsions low they ...
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... Night . The Zephyrs fleet on thy wave - covered breast , Leave as they speed the imprint of their feet , E'en as the desert steeds their pathway make On the wide circle of the silvery sand . I saw the dark wing of the tempest pass , As ...
... Night . The Zephyrs fleet on thy wave - covered breast , Leave as they speed the imprint of their feet , E'en as the desert steeds their pathway make On the wide circle of the silvery sand . I saw the dark wing of the tempest pass , As ...
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... Night , bring Morning , Noon and Eve , Day for the sleeper to awake and toil , Night for the wearied laborer to repose , Morn for the youthful heart to light its path , Noon for maturity to heat its brow , Eve for decrepitude to trace ...
... Night , bring Morning , Noon and Eve , Day for the sleeper to awake and toil , Night for the wearied laborer to repose , Morn for the youthful heart to light its path , Noon for maturity to heat its brow , Eve for decrepitude to trace ...
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abyss altar American Fall amid Arcturus arms art thou banks bark beauty beneath blessed blest breast breath bright brow cascade Cataract Cave Central Fall cities of refuge clouds dark death deep depth distance doom dread dwell e'en echoes Fall Farewell fierce filled flood foes grief hand hast hath hear heard heart Heaven height hills hope Horseshoe Fall hurled images Iris Island isle Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario land leagues Lewiston light line from top lips lone look LORD miles morning NAVY ISLAND neath Niagara River night NOTE pass Pleiades praise precipice rapture rise rock roll round rush seems shines shore side smile song soul sound spirit spring season stars streams sweet swift tell thee thine thou dost thought throne tide torrent tread truth vales voice Waterfall waters waves whirlpool wild winds
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Page 149 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 151 - And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 150 - Inspire the course ; but fainting breathless toil, Sick, seizes on his heart: he stands at bay; And puts his last weak refuge in despair; The big round tears run down his dappled face ; He groans in anguish...
Page 149 - Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Page 164 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 151 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 184 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 165 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 165 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.