SUN of my soul, thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh may no earthborn cloud arise, To hide thee from thy servant's eyes. The Magnificat: Hymns with Tunes - Page 92by General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1893 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...works of thousands of controversialists before him have done ; and we would rather have written ' Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near,' than have composed all the ninety tracts and every pamphlet which defended or answered them. For though... | |
| 1871 - 592 pages
...When Christ the Sun of Eighteousness rises upon our souls, wo bask iu His beams, and exclaim — " Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; O. let no eavthborn cloud arise, To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes." 13ut there are times when... | |
| John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 398 pages
...traveller on his way must press, No gleam to watch on tree or tower, Whiling away the lonesome hour. Sun of my soul ! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if...cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes. Tracing out Wisdom, Power, and Love, In earth or sky, in stream or grove ; — Or by the light thy... | |
| John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...gleam to watch on tree or tower, Whiling away the lonesome hour. Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour clear, It is not night if Thou be near : Oh may no earth-born...cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes. Tracing out Wisdom. Power, and Love, In earth or sky, in stream or grove;— Or by the light thy words... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...ipsa morte) it-grieves (piget) not to want (Poet. Orn. y) what I fear to lose. EXERCISE XIII. (Keble). When the soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids...gently steep, Be my last thought, How sweet to rest For ever on my Saviour's breast ! Abide with me from morn till eve, 5 For without Thee I cannot live... | |
| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1831 - 438 pages
...traveller on his way must press, No gleam to watch on tree or tower, Whiling away the lonesome hour. 3 Sun of my soul ! thou Saviour dear ! It is not night if thou be near : 0 may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes. 4 When with dear friends sweet... | |
| Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...not night if Thou he near; . Oh, may no earth-horn cloud arise To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes ! When the soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep, •* Be my last thoughts how sweet to rest Forever on my Saviour's hreast. Ahide with me from morn till eve, For without... | |
| Baptists - 1834 - 514 pages
...is ligl,t, So every grace is love. From the Hymn for Evening, we extract the two following stanzas : When the soft dews of kindly sleep, My wearied eyelids...gently steep, Be my last thought, how sweet to rest Foiever on my Saviour's hreast. Abide with me from morn to eve, For without thee, I cannot live; Abide... | |
| William Bourn Oliver Peabody - Hymns, English - 1835 - 426 pages
...wistful gaze; Yon mantling cloud has hid from sight The last faint pulse of quivering light. 2 Sun of my soul ! thou Saviour dear ! It is not night if thou be near ; 0 may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servants' eyes. 3 When the soft dews of kindly... | |
| Bible - 1835 - 476 pages
...wistful gaze ; Yon mantling cloud has hid from sight The last faint pulse of quivering light. 2 Sun of my soul ! thou Saviour dear ! It is not night if thou be near : O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes. 3 When the soft dews of kindly... | |
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