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... hill and vale have charms for me ; The river , and the broad blue sea . Yes ! and its fields , and fruits , and flowers , Its sun , and stars , and glorious frame , Now tell me of the Maker's name . I read it in the flying hours , I feel ...
... hill and vale have charms for me ; The river , and the broad blue sea . Yes ! and its fields , and fruits , and flowers , Its sun , and stars , and glorious frame , Now tell me of the Maker's name . I read it in the flying hours , I feel ...
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... tell what sights may rise ? Will reason then be true ? Must he , -a blooming , laughter - loving child , — Be mated thus ? - The thought was cruel , wild ! His knees together smote , as first , in fear , He gazed around his prison ...
... tell what sights may rise ? Will reason then be true ? Must he , -a blooming , laughter - loving child , — Be mated thus ? - The thought was cruel , wild ! His knees together smote , as first , in fear , He gazed around his prison ...
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... tell , in everlasting hymn , Only of God ! The morning stars that woke Music along their courses , early caught Its far off echoes , and in wild delight Returned them , softened , round the universe . Think not , think not , Earth's ...
... tell , in everlasting hymn , Only of God ! The morning stars that woke Music along their courses , early caught Its far off echoes , and in wild delight Returned them , softened , round the universe . Think not , think not , Earth's ...
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... tell that years have journeyed by , Since o'er this venerable ground a truant child I played , And chased the bee and plucked the flower , where ancient dust is laid ; And hearkened , in my wondering mood , when tolled the passing bell ...
... tell that years have journeyed by , Since o'er this venerable ground a truant child I played , And chased the bee and plucked the flower , where ancient dust is laid ; And hearkened , in my wondering mood , when tolled the passing bell ...
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... tell where resting bones Are hidden , though their date and name have perished from the stones . How rich these precincts with the spoils of ages buried here ! What hearts have ached , what eyes have given this conscious earth the tear ...
... tell where resting bones Are hidden , though their date and name have perished from the stones . How rich these precincts with the spoils of ages buried here ! What hearts have ached , what eyes have given this conscious earth the tear ...
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Page 116 - JAMES IV. 13, 14. Go to, now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and
Page 237 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person ; see ye to it. — St. Matthew, xxvii. 24.
Page 302 - heaven. There Faith lifts up her cheerful eye, To brighter prospects given, — And views the tempest passing by, The evening shadows quickly fly, And all serene in heaven. There fragrant flowers, immortal, bloom, And joys supreme are given : There rays divine disperse the gloom — Beyond the confines of the tomb Appears the dawn of heaven.
Page 68 - Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen, and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting; and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen ; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables ; and said unto
Page 166 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton,
Page 273 - NIGHT IN PRAYER. And it came to pass, in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. Luke vi. 12. All night
Page 143 - For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.— Paul
Page 253 - there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had this, and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich ; and if they had not this, and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.
Page 163 - His life hath flowed, A sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored ; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them. — Ion.
Page 133 - SUNDAY. The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on Time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King.— The