 WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears. 2 If aught should tempt my soul to stray...  The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts: To which are ... - Page 708by Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - 1840 - 780 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Henry Miles - English poetry - 1906 - 424 pages
...infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."— HEB. iv. 15. WHEN gathering clouds around I view And days are dark,...and friends are few On Him I lean, Who, not in vain, Experienc'd every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.... | |
 | William Budd Bodine - Episcopalians - 1907 - 646 pages
...use than to the worship of the great congregation. I quote it as found in our older hymnals : When gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark,...allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears. If aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly wisdom's narrow way, To fly the good I would pursue,... | |
 | Harrow School - Hymns - 1908 - 360 pages
...revealed, And the book of doom unsealed, When to Thee I have appealed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. 89 WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark,...allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears. If aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly wisdom's narrow way, To flee the good I would... | |
 | Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Hymn writers - 1911 - 630 pages
...Boy, may the eagle's flight ever be thine, Onward, and upward, and true to the line." 134 LM ci. WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark,...aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly wisdom's narrow way, To fly the good I would pursue. Or do tile sin I would not do, Still he who felt... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - English poetry - 1914 - 628 pages
...God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ? " S. MATT, xxvii. 46. " Jesus wept." S. JOHN xi. 35. When gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark,...allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears. If aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly Wisdom's narrow way, To flee the good I would... | |
 | Mary Louise Kete - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 308 pages
...shore O raise me to thy courts above To swim in seas of perfect love Dover Feb 25th 1838 [Page 33] When gathering clouds around I view And days are dark and...are few On him I lean who not in vain Experienced very human pain He sees my wants allays my fears And counts and treasures up my tears If aught should... | |
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