Day-school Singer for Public and Private Schools

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Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1870 - Music - 168 pages

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Page 132 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Page 164 - HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled breast ; 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary, rest. 3...
Page 125 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Page 168 - In my hand no price I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling. 3 While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyes shall close in death, When I rise to worlds unknown, And behold thee on thy throne, Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.
Page 125 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes. What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 46 - I've heard, this little trout Was young and foolish too, And so he thought he'd venture out, To see if it were true. And round about the hook he played, With many a longing look, And — " Dear me," to himself he said, " I'm sure that's not a hook. " I can but give one little pluck : Let's see, and so I will.
Page 126 - Deeper, deeper, let us toil In the mines of knowledge, Nature's wealth and Learning's spoil Win from school and college ; Delve we there for richer gems Than the stars of diadems.
Page 125 - In God is our trust"; And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er...
Page 139 - Perish policy and cunning, Perish all that fears the light ! Whether losing, whether winning, Trust in God and do the right.
Page 138 - TRUST IN GOD AND DO THE RIGHT. 97 TRUST IN GOD AND DO THE RIGHT. COURAGE, brother, do not stumble, ^-' Though thy path be dark as night ; There's a star to guide the humble ; — " Trust in God and do the right.

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