 BROTHER, thou art gone before us, and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5111900Full view - About this book
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...restore thee, And death hath no sting, since the Saviour has died. Bishop Heber CXL THE BURIAL ANTHEM Brother, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown. From the burden of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Music - 1865 - 846 pages
...borrowed from a poem by the Dran, called The Martyr of Ai.tioch. Here are the first two verses : — ' Brother, thou art gone before us, and thy saintly soul is flown, "Jhere tears are wiped from erery eye, and sorrow Is unknown ; ' om the burthen ot the flesh, and from... | |
 | Selected hymns - Children's poetry, English - 1866 - 194 pages
...shade, Then our hearts shall not be troubled, Nor shall they be afraid. 11 ON THE DEATH OF A CHRISTIAN. BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown, "Where tears are wiped from every eye And sorrow is unknown : From the burthen of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Hymns - 1866 - 436 pages
...and clear He blesseth, in the eventide, The Sabbath of the year. Burial £ntljem. ' DEAN HH MILMAN. BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown, Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown. From the burden of the flesh, And from... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1866 - 424 pages
...next moment the procession moved on, and some twenty voices burst forth with the wellknown hymn : " Brother, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown, Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown. From the burthen of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...Thou rise Into Thy native skies, Thy human form dissolved on high In its own radiancy. FUNERAL ANTHEM. BROTHER, thou art gone before us, and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from... | |
 | Church book - 1867 - 484 pages
...Everlasting praise I'll render To that God whose name is Love ! Funeral Anthem. 262i 8's and 7's. HH MiLMAif. Brother, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown. From the burden of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 234 pages
...and the blest. (By permission of the Author.) "GONE BEFORE." EEV. HH MILMAN, DD, DEAN OP ST. PAUL'S. BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown. From the burden of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1867 - 598 pages
...confident, I say, and willing rather, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." " Brother, thou art gone before us, and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown. From the burthen of the flesh, and from... | |
 | Henry Southwick Perkins - Anthems - 1867 - 348 pages
...i' -^r— fr-? H MILM.A:N\ as, ?s & es. ITodernlo. LJ-^-jntizjzij^JZJ W. 0. PERKINS. t=tt±± 223 1. Broth-er, thou art gone before us, And thy saint-ly soul is flown, Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrows are un-known ; ft 2. Sin no more can taint thy spir-it,... | |
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