Christian Melodies ...Simpkin and Marshall, 1833 - Religious poetry, English |
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... soon will night Spread her dark mantle o'er thy reign ! And soon the morn's returning light Will call us to the world again ! Yet will there dawn , at last , a day ; A sun , that never sets , shall rise ; Night will not veil his ...
... soon will night Spread her dark mantle o'er thy reign ! And soon the morn's returning light Will call us to the world again ! Yet will there dawn , at last , a day ; A sun , that never sets , shall rise ; Night will not veil his ...
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... soon descend , Too soon these earthly Sabbaths end ; Cares of a work - day world return , And faint our hearts , and fitful , burn . Oh think , my soul ! beyond compare , Think what a Sabbath must be there , Where all is holy bliss ...
... soon descend , Too soon these earthly Sabbaths end ; Cares of a work - day world return , And faint our hearts , and fitful , burn . Oh think , my soul ! beyond compare , Think what a Sabbath must be there , Where all is holy bliss ...
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... sweet rose , Bedew'd with the tears of the morn ; But doom'd are its charms soon to close- Its place to be fill'd by the thorn . J Thus man's transient life glides away , And swiftly youth's THE FLOWERS . 5 The Rose 5.
... sweet rose , Bedew'd with the tears of the morn ; But doom'd are its charms soon to close- Its place to be fill'd by the thorn . J Thus man's transient life glides away , And swiftly youth's THE FLOWERS . 5 The Rose 5.
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... soon its sweets are gone , How soon it withering lies , So when the Eve of Life comes on , Sweet Beauty fades and dies : Then since the fairest form that's made , Soon withering we shall find , Let us possess what ne'er will fade ...
... soon its sweets are gone , How soon it withering lies , So when the Eve of Life comes on , Sweet Beauty fades and dies : Then since the fairest form that's made , Soon withering we shall find , Let us possess what ne'er will fade ...
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... , Before the rays of hope . " Tho ' born , like us , to droop and die , How different is our lot ; We withering fade from every eye , Unpitied - soon forgot . " While you , released from earthly toil , In 8 THE FLOWERS .
... , Before the rays of hope . " Tho ' born , like us , to droop and die , How different is our lot ; We withering fade from every eye , Unpitied - soon forgot . " While you , released from earthly toil , In 8 THE FLOWERS .
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angels ANON beam beauty behold beneath blessing blest bliss bloom bower breast breath bright CAROLINE FRY charms cheer Christian dark dear death delight divine dwell e'en earth earthly EDMESTON eternal ev'ry fade fair faith Father fear feel flower fragrance gloom glorious glory glow grace grave grief hail hallow'd hallowed ground hand hast hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy hope hosannas hour immortal Jesus life's light live Lord mercy morn mortal nature's ne'er NOSEGAY o'er Paternoster Row peace perfume pleasures praise prayer raptures reign repose rest rill rise Rose of Sharon round Sabbath sacred sacred fount saints Saviour scene seraphic serene shade shew shine sigh sing skies smile sorrow soul spirit spring storms stream sweet tear tempests thee thine thou art thought throne thy love tomb Twas voice weary weep wild wings Winter Rose
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Page 68 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme. How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How he who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head ; How His first followers and servants sped. The precepts sage they wrote to many a land How he who lone, in Patmos banished. Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand. And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope "springs...
Page 67 - 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 and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And, " Let us worship God,
Page 41 - A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun ; It gives a light to every age, — It gives, but borrows none.
Page 70 - BY cool Siloam's shady rill, How sweet the lily grows ! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose ! 2 Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God...
Page 68 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart...
Page 25 - SWEET the moments, rich in blessing, Which before the cross I spend; Life, and health, and peace possessing, From the sinner's dying friend. Here I'll sit for ever viewing Mercy's streams in streams of blood, Precious drops my soul bedewing, Plead and claim my peace with God.
Page 44 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try, Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry,
Page 14 - O what a night was that which wrapt The heathen world in gloom ! O what a sun, which broke this day, Triumphant from the tomb ! 3...
Page 10 - SAFELY through another week, God has brought us on our way ; — Let us now a blessing seek, Waiting in his courts to-day : Day of all the week the best, Emblem of eternal rest.