A Manual for Use at Funerals: Consisting of Scripture Readings, Poems, and Prose Selections from Various Sources |
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... weep for thee When thy pure soul from every ill is free ? Our only tears should flow For those , the loved , who linger still below , From whom the light of thy dear smile is fled , Who feel indeed that thou art with the dead . We know ...
... weep for thee When thy pure soul from every ill is free ? Our only tears should flow For those , the loved , who linger still below , From whom the light of thy dear smile is fled , Who feel indeed that thou art with the dead . We know ...
Page 119
... Weeping at the feet and head . I can see your falling tears , And ye say , I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this , " I am not the thing you kiss . Cease your tears and let it lie : It was mine , it is not I ...
... Weeping at the feet and head . I can see your falling tears , And ye say , I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this , " I am not the thing you kiss . Cease your tears and let it lie : It was mine , it is not I ...
Page 120
... weep , my erring friends , While the man whom ye call dead , In unspoken bliss , instead , Lives and loves you , lost , ' tis true , ― By such light as shines for you ; But in the light ye cannot see Of unfulfilled felicity , In a ...
... weep , my erring friends , While the man whom ye call dead , In unspoken bliss , instead , Lives and loves you , lost , ' tis true , ― By such light as shines for you ; But in the light ye cannot see Of unfulfilled felicity , In a ...
Page 129
... weep because thou canst not weep , And grieve that all thy griefs are o'er . R. J. Fear death ?. - Prospice . to feel the fog LIFE AND DEATH . 129.
... weep because thou canst not weep , And grieve that all thy griefs are o'er . R. J. Fear death ?. - Prospice . to feel the fog LIFE AND DEATH . 129.
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... weep . The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears ; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years . There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night ; And grief may bide an ...
... weep . The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears ; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years . There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night ; And grief may bide an ...
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A. C. Swinburne Absalom Alfred Tennyson Alice Cary angels Anonymous beautiful behold Blessed breath bright bright promise child cloud cometh dark days go dead dear death Dora Greenwell doth dust earth eternal eyes faint fair faith Father fear feet flowers forever friends gates Gerald Massey give giveth giveth his beloved glory God's gone grave grief hand hath heart heaven holy hope Horatius Bonar Hymns immortal J. G. Fichte J. G. Whittier Leopold Schefer life's light live look Lord mercy morning mortal never night o'er pain passed patient peace Poems prayer Putnam Quiet Hours R. H. CHARLES rest righteousness river Schaff & Gilman shadow shine sing sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stars strength Sursum Corda sweet tears tender thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought troubled trust truth voice wait weary weep wisdom
Popular passages
Page 36 - LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 145 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 20 - And He said unto her : What wilt thou ? She saith unto Him : Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on Thy right hand, and the other on the left, in Thy kingdom.
Page 71 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 62 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 31 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 30 - Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 78 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart : Be strong, fear not : behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense ; he will come and save you.
Page 39 - I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death ; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 24 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth ; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. For He maketh sore, and bindeth up ; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles ; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.