 | 1835 - 700 pages
...for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. « " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life from...pitch my moving tent A day's march -nearer home.' Of this form of illustrating the simplest themes by language and images, at once homely and poetical,... | |
 | England - 1867 - 810 pages
...adapted in a style excruciating to a sensitive author, is most popular — " For ever with the Lonl, Amen, so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home," &c. And another — " There is a better world, they say, Oh, so bright ! Where sin and woe are done... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...! so let it he ! Life from the dead is in that word, And immortality. Here in the hody pent, Ahsent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent...high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, — Tlie... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...stars in empty night, But hide themselves in heaven's own light. FOR EVES WITH THE LORD. " FOR ever with the Lord! " Amen! so let it be: Life from the dead is in that word : 'Tis immortality! My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's aspiring eye, Thy golden... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pages
...lowest hell, Prepares a heavenly house for me, AT HOME IN HEAVEN 1 THESS. iv. 17. PART I. " FOR ever with the Lord ! " — Amen ; so let it be ; Life from...immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 572 pages
...for instance, a stanza, from the present volume, in his lines on a passage in Timothy. ' " For ever with the Lord ! " Amen ; so let it be — Life from the dead is in that word, "Tig immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent... | |
 | Charles Edward Kennaway - 1835 - 470 pages
...that sweet hymn of Montgomery's, " For ever with the Lord :" of which I will quote a verse or two. " Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my tent A day's march nearer home. My Fathers house on high, Home of my soul how near, At times to faith's... | |
 | Church history - 1836 - 368 pages
...MOSES I3uuw.\i:. SACRED POETRY. A HOME IN HEAVEN*. " FOR ever with the Lord." Amen, so let it be ; Lite from the dead is in that word, " 'Tis immortality." Here in the body spent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A diiy's march nearer home. My father's... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1838 - 228 pages
...to possess. AMICUS, HM s. M. POETRY. AT HOME IN HEAVEN. For ever with the Lord, Amen, so let it he : Life from the dead is in that word, Tis immortality. Here in the hody pent, Ahsent frum him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my roving tent A day's march nearer home. My... | |
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Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 
