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... grace , and glory meet- A Saviour all Divine . The blood which , as a priest , He bears , For sinners , is His own ; The incense of His prayers and tears Perfumes the holy throne . In Him my weary soul has rest , Though I am weak and ...
... grace , and glory meet- A Saviour all Divine . The blood which , as a priest , He bears , For sinners , is His own ; The incense of His prayers and tears Perfumes the holy throne . In Him my weary soul has rest , Though I am weak and ...
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... grace ; Thy beauty , Lord , and glory , The wonders of Thy love , Shall be the endless story Of all Thy saints above . 6. ABILITIES . Development of CALL now to mind what high capacious powers Lie folded up in man ; how far beyond The ...
... grace ; Thy beauty , Lord , and glory , The wonders of Thy love , Shall be the endless story Of all Thy saints above . 6. ABILITIES . Development of CALL now to mind what high capacious powers Lie folded up in man ; how far beyond The ...
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... grace ; The reddening sun went down apace ; And Abraham , left in rayless night , Cried , ' O my people , let us turn And worship now the God who rules These lesser lights , and bids them burn ! ' Helen Hunt , from the Koran . 9 ...
... grace ; The reddening sun went down apace ; And Abraham , left in rayless night , Cried , ' O my people , let us turn And worship now the God who rules These lesser lights , and bids them burn ! ' Helen Hunt , from the Koran . 9 ...
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... grace fructify through thee to all . The least flower , with a brimming cup , may stand And share its dew - drop with another near . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . 23. ACTION . Call to DARE to do right ! dare to be true ! You have a work ...
... grace fructify through thee to all . The least flower , with a brimming cup , may stand And share its dew - drop with another near . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . 23. ACTION . Call to DARE to do right ! dare to be true ! You have a work ...
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... grace and ease , Whom folly pleases , and whose follies please . - Pope . Those trifles wherein children take delight Grow nauseous to the young man's appetite ; And from those gaieties our youth requires To exercise their minds , our ...
... grace and ease , Whom folly pleases , and whose follies please . - Pope . Those trifles wherein children take delight Grow nauseous to the young man's appetite ; And from those gaieties our youth requires To exercise their minds , our ...
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Page 106 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled...
Page 499 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 603 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 105 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke, How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How...
Page 314 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 105 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 513 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 460 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will, for a' that, That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 526 - When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, . They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 374 - Some fragment from his dream of human life Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart...