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... sweet response Within her children's bosom , and their tongue Echoed it back to Heaven . We muse along Her peopled plains , and on the listening ear Woe breathes its wail , -amid the giddy throng We start to meet the spectral form of ...
... sweet response Within her children's bosom , and their tongue Echoed it back to Heaven . We muse along Her peopled plains , and on the listening ear Woe breathes its wail , -amid the giddy throng We start to meet the spectral form of ...
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... who wandered forth to try The quiet of that midnight sky , And mark its planets shine , And the sweet moonlight o'er the sea , That slept beneath so tranquilly , It's chain of silver twine , - The man whose ST . PAUL AT PHILIPPI . 45.
... who wandered forth to try The quiet of that midnight sky , And mark its planets shine , And the sweet moonlight o'er the sea , That slept beneath so tranquilly , It's chain of silver twine , - The man whose ST . PAUL AT PHILIPPI . 45.
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... earnest than before , It tells its message , " Come ! " X. Pity ! sweet seraph ! whatsoe'er The garb thy gentle form may wear , So tenderly and deeply dear To this dark world of ours , - Whether , E 2 ST . PAUL AT PHILIPPI . 51.
... earnest than before , It tells its message , " Come ! " X. Pity ! sweet seraph ! whatsoe'er The garb thy gentle form may wear , So tenderly and deeply dear To this dark world of ours , - Whether , E 2 ST . PAUL AT PHILIPPI . 51.
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... sweet are the sounds that then Steal out from copse - wood fold and glen , Those mellow voices that commingle With the small brooklet's silver song That , dancing down o'er rock and shingle , Carols its happiness along . IV . But sadly ...
... sweet are the sounds that then Steal out from copse - wood fold and glen , Those mellow voices that commingle With the small brooklet's silver song That , dancing down o'er rock and shingle , Carols its happiness along . IV . But sadly ...
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... sweet and clear They melt upon my listening ear : ' Tis woman's voice - that liquid tone An angel might not blush to own , - Oh that an angel's theme were given To notes so harmonized with heaven ! But haste we thither ! not in vain Is ...
... sweet and clear They melt upon my listening ear : ' Tis woman's voice - that liquid tone An angel might not blush to own , - Oh that an angel's theme were given To notes so harmonized with heaven ! But haste we thither ! not in vain Is ...
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Acts xvi amid angels ANTISTROPHE Astaroth beauty beneath bless blest bliss breast breath bright brow burst caught charm cheek Cherubim child Clare Hall clouds CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE dæmon dark dear death deemed deep dream Druids E'en earth Eolian eternal face faith father feeling felt flower foes fond gazed gentle glance gloom glory glow grace grief happy hath heard heart heaven hills Himalaya holy hope hour hyæna Ishmael Kentmere king light Lord Maxentius mighty mountains Nature's night Numbers o'er OBTAINED THE SEATONIAN Patmos peace praise prayer Psalms rapture rest scene SEATONIAN PRIZE seraph shadows sigh sight silent sleep smile song sooth sorrow soul spake spirit stood strain stream sweet tears Thasos thee thine thought throne tone Twas unto visions voice waves West Bilney wild word
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Page 92 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 309 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 309 - And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Page 347 - And the city lieth four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Page 96 - And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Page 96 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Page 94 - And this did she many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Page 92 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 408 - Though long before thy hand they touch, I know that they must wither'd be, But yet reject them not as such; For I have cherish'd them as dear, Because they yet may meet thine eye, And guide thy soul to mine even here, When thou behold'st them drooping nigh, And know'st them gather'd by the Rhine, And offer'd from my heart to thine!
Page 150 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.