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Page xxii
... breast- The quiet of that moment too is thine : It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps . XIV . Now pray we for our country , That England long may be The holy , and the happy , And the gloriously free ...
... breast- The quiet of that moment too is thine : It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps . XIV . Now pray we for our country , That England long may be The holy , and the happy , And the gloriously free ...
Page xlii
... breast ; Willing hands to lead the blind , Bind the wounded , feed the poor ; Love , embracing all our kind ; Charity , with liberal store . Teach us , O thou heavenly King , Thus to shew our grateful mind , Thus the accepted offering ...
... breast ; Willing hands to lead the blind , Bind the wounded , feed the poor ; Love , embracing all our kind ; Charity , with liberal store . Teach us , O thou heavenly King , Thus to shew our grateful mind , Thus the accepted offering ...
Page liv
... breast expands with generous warmth A stranger's woes to feel ; And bleeds in pity o'er the wound He wants the power to heal . He spreads his kind supporting arms To every child of grief ; His secret bounty largely flows , And brings ...
... breast expands with generous warmth A stranger's woes to feel ; And bleeds in pity o'er the wound He wants the power to heal . He spreads his kind supporting arms To every child of grief ; His secret bounty largely flows , And brings ...
Page lxxi
... Inward , and observe thy breast ; There alone dwells solid rest . That's a close immured tower , Which can mock all hostile power ; To thyself a tenant be , And inhabit safe and free . Say not that this house is small , Girt up LXIV .
... Inward , and observe thy breast ; There alone dwells solid rest . That's a close immured tower , Which can mock all hostile power ; To thyself a tenant be , And inhabit safe and free . Say not that this house is small , Girt up LXIV .
Page xci
... breast with sacred awe : ' Twas- " To the unknown God . " Age after age has rolled away , Altars and thrones have felt decay , Sages and saints have risen ; And , like a giant roused from sleep , Man has explored the pathless deep , And ...
... breast with sacred awe : ' Twas- " To the unknown God . " Age after age has rolled away , Altars and thrones have felt decay , Sages and saints have risen ; And , like a giant roused from sleep , Man has explored the pathless deep , And ...
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Page lvi - IN the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page lxxi - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page ix - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page lx - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page xxxix - God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Page lxxxv - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone ; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, — Nearer to Thee...
Page cxxx - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page vii - LET us, with a gladsome mind, Praise the Lord, for he is kind ; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure.
Page xlvi - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page lxxxv - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!