Church Poetry: Being Portions of the Psalms in Verse, and Hymns Suited to the Festivals and Fasts, and Various Occasions of the Church |
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... hour ! O blest abode ! I shall be near and like my God ! And flesh and sin no more control The sacred pleasures of the soul . PSALM XVIII . 6--15 .、( L. M. ) 1 In deep distress I rais'd my voice on high : From heav'n he bow'd to hear ...
... hour ! O blest abode ! I shall be near and like my God ! And flesh and sin no more control The sacred pleasures of the soul . PSALM XVIII . 6--15 .、( L. M. ) 1 In deep distress I rais'd my voice on high : From heav'n he bow'd to hear ...
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... hour . 6 When billows swell , when tempests rage , When the great water floods prevail ; Thy children still preserv'd by thee Shall never find thy mercy fail . 7 My hiding place secure in thee , No terrors shall my soul annoy ; Songs of ...
... hour . 6 When billows swell , when tempests rage , When the great water floods prevail ; Thy children still preserv'd by thee Shall never find thy mercy fail . 7 My hiding place secure in thee , No terrors shall my soul annoy ; Songs of ...
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... hour , A to man's relentless power . prey 4 When languid with disease and pain , Thou , Lord , his spirit shalt ... hours of peace and gladness flown . 3 For I have walk'd the happy round That circles Zion's holy ground , And gladly ...
... hour , A to man's relentless power . prey 4 When languid with disease and pain , Thou , Lord , his spirit shalt ... hours of peace and gladness flown . 3 For I have walk'd the happy round That circles Zion's holy ground , And gladly ...
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... hours employ . 3 Why then , my soul , oppress'd with woes ? Why thus cast down with anxious care ? On God , thy God , full trust repose , Who will thy failing strength repair . PSALM XLV . 1—8 . ( L. M ) ` Appointed by the church for ...
... hours employ . 3 Why then , my soul , oppress'd with woes ? Why thus cast down with anxious care ? On God , thy God , full trust repose , Who will thy failing strength repair . PSALM XLV . 1—8 . ( L. M ) ` Appointed by the church for ...
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... truth ; Thy hands have held my childhood up , Ånd strengthen'd all my youth . 2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy pow'r , With all these limbs of mine ; ( c . M. ) And from my mother's painful hour I've been entirely thine PSALMS . .43.
... truth ; Thy hands have held my childhood up , Ånd strengthen'd all my youth . 2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy pow'r , With all these limbs of mine ; ( c . M. ) And from my mother's painful hour I've been entirely thine PSALMS . .43.
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Page 207 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 118 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning. Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 65 - We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is Thy command, Vast as eternity Thy love ; Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.
Page 128 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 112 - TTARK ! the glad sound, the Saviour comes, -*--'- The Saviour promised long : Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song.
Page 215 - Twere vain the ocean depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole. 2. The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 13 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 189 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne ! Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 "Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, " To be exalted thus ; " " Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
Page 133 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet ? Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
Page 239 - BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love ; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. 2 Before our Father's throne We pour our ardent prayers ; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one. Our comforts and our cares. 3 We share our mutual woes, Our mutual burdens bear ; And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear.