 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
 | John William Kirton - 1878 - 292 pages
...'WHERE DEATH HATH NO STING, SINCE THE SAVIOUR LATH FUNERAL ANTHEM. BY MILMAN. [Earnest and serioue.] Brother, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And where sorrow is unknown. From the burthen of the flesh, And... | |
 | Richard Waldo Sibthorp - 1879 - 776 pages
...assurance : Death is yours. We may say of every deceased fellow-Christian, and have it said of us : — 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... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1880 - 486 pages
...— arise, — rej oi ce . 481 The spirit shall return unto God who gave it. [PM Eccles. xii. 7. 1 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... | |
 | Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 pages
...And post o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." —Milton. : 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... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...HIM we trust, " Earth to earth, and dust to dust!" George Croly (1780 — 1860). BURIAL ANTHEM. 1. Brother, tho.u 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 of England hymn book - 1880 - 754 pages
...erase from troubling ; and -I, fr^.,, \ tlOU that tttf weary be at rest. Job iii. 17. 14Bi \^KR.J 1 p BROTHER, thou art gone before us; and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; era From the burden of the flesh, and... | |
 | Frederick Harper - 1881 - 390 pages
...as dying men and women, to prepare to meet their God. After the address the choir sang the 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 burden of the flesh, And from... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...cares are vain, John ; We'll meet, and we'll be fain, I' the land o' the leal. LADT NAIBKE. $jj tnn. 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... | |
 | John Troutbeck - Hymns, English - 1883 - 504 pages
...begun, That in the life eternal It may be ever one. Amen. S. FLOOD JONES. D. 8.7. or 245' Four 15*5. , 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... | |
 | Sunset, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Christian life - 1883 - 296 pages
...blessed, by one to whom the gift was permitted to leave behind him a memory, blessed and dear : — " 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... | |
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