 | 1852 - 798 pages
...These will extend his influence to the end of time. " And I am glad that he has lived to long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord, When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age — it was his time to... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. "And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward, Nor deem that...chord, When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dim with the mist of age — it was his time to die !" Selected for FHendi' Review. THE DYING HEBREW'S... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pages
...limb, For luxury and sloth had nourish'd none for him. And I am glad, that he has liv'd thus Ion;;, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...limb, For luxury and sloth had nourish'd none for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die."... | |
 | Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. " We may be glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die."... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers (Secondary) - 1851 - 288 pages
...away in peace, repeating to myself these words : — " And I am glad that he has lived thus long ; And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. 6 When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward, Nor deem that...nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord." Here then is our repose,— the Lord, who is Love, gave and continued and took away. In her... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1842 - 322 pages
...repeating to myself these words:- ' ' 12. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And gladtliat he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak h-and grew palsied, and his eye, Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...in the Lord, Glory and joy are their reward. Watts. And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward: Nor deem that...Nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak nand grew palsied, with his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to... | |
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And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his... 
