| Melissa Musick Nussbaum - Compline - 1995 - 164 pages
...wrong this day we've done; Your peace give to the world, O Lord, That all might live in one accord. Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die that so I may Rise glorious of that final day. Enlighten us, O blessed Light. And give us rest throughout this night.... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, life of Dr. Johnson, entry, Oct. 26, 1769(1791). 30 Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. THOMAS KEN, (1637-1711) British churchman, hymn-writer. "Evening Hymn," St. 3(1695). 31 Death never... | |
| David Herbert Lawrence - Fiction - 1998 - 404 pages
...verse of the 'Evening Hymn' ('Glory to thee, my God, this night') of Bishop Thomas Ken (1637-171 1): 'Teach me to live, that I may dread | The grave as little as my bed; | leach me to die, that so I may | Rise glorious at the awful day.' lie can't . . . life, alone: cf.... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...the light; 5524 Keep me, O keep me, King of Kings, Beneath thy own almighty wings. 5550 'Evening Hymn he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to 5551 'Morning Hymn' Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last. KENDALL... | |
| John Koessler - Religion - 1998 - 174 pages
...embrace it as a friend whose mission is to lead me into Your presence. In the words of the hymn wnter: "Teach me to live that I may dread/ The grave as little as my bed. " Amen. Il CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE LORD The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised... | |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Classical fiction - 1982 - 564 pages
...grave as little as her bed: the third stanza of the Evening Hymn by Bishop Thomas Ken (1637-171 1): Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day. Page 82. (1) First Day: Sunday. Alice is avoiding the term she regards... | |
| Religion - 2001 - 242 pages
...ill that I this day have done, That with the world, myself and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that so I may Pvise glorious at the awful day. O may my soul on thee repose, And with sweet sleep my eyelids close,... | |
| William Gadsby - Hymns, English - 2002 - 374 pages
...that I this day have done, That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 3 Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed: Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day. 4 When in the night I sleepless lie, My soul with heavenly thoughts... | |
| Peregrine Hodson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 246 pages
...marching? And when would we be able to sleep? I remembered a long forgotten line from a school hymn: '. . . teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.' I was very tired. I dozed off and was woken by Nazim Khan, still astride his horse, calling my name.... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...man." — Chinese proverbs. "Teach the art of living well." — "While we teach we learn." — Seneca "Teach me to live, that I may dread the grave as little as my bed." — Bishop Thomas Ken "Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that... | |
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