 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...Afric's sunny fountains ( Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Church missionary society - 1852 - 314 pages
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness,... | |
 | Willoughby Willey - Hymns, English - 1852 - 336 pages
...sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient fiver, From many a palmy plain, Thev call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Louisa Davids - Hymns, English - 1853 - 132 pages
...Afric's sunny fountains Koll down their golden sand. From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's...every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vnin with lavish iindness, The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to... | |
 | Reginald Heber - English poetry - 1853 - 350 pages
...From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Prom many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Christians - 1853 - 510 pages
...an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's...— Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile j In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen in his blindness, Bows... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - Hymns - 1853 - 402 pages
...an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What, though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's...— Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? IB TM, with Tbe gifts cf Godsresoewm; Bov% down u> wood Md r- • lu-nM ,..— L ., , - : -... | |
 | Reginald Heber - English poetry - 1853 - 348 pages
...From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Prom many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What thongh the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man... | |
 | Thomas Baker Morrell - Bible - 1854 - 166 pages
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...Afiic's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's...chain. * "What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, — Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? In vain with lavish kindness... | |
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FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 
