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... compare : With solemn delight I survey The corpse , when the spirit is fled , In love with the beautiful clay , And longing to lie in its stead . ” Yet hymn books which had no place for Wes- ley's 62 STORY OF THE AMERICAN HYMN.
... compare : With solemn delight I survey The corpse , when the spirit is fled , In love with the beautiful clay , And longing to lie in its stead . ” Yet hymn books which had no place for Wes- ley's 62 STORY OF THE AMERICAN HYMN.
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... Beautiful , " and the " Spirited . " Letters prefixed to the lines of a hymn indicated how the words were to be sung . A stanza from a familiar hymn , with the mean- ing of the letters bracketed , will illustrate the device . a ( very ...
... Beautiful , " and the " Spirited . " Letters prefixed to the lines of a hymn indicated how the words were to be sung . A stanza from a familiar hymn , with the mean- ing of the letters bracketed , will illustrate the device . a ( very ...
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... beautiful airs running in my head , if I only had strength to note them down . ' " He lapsed into unconsciousness , and presently awoke where the strains of celestial music fell upon his ears . FRANCIS SCOTT KEY 1779-1843 " O say ! can ...
... beautiful airs running in my head , if I only had strength to note them down . ' " He lapsed into unconsciousness , and presently awoke where the strains of celestial music fell upon his ears . FRANCIS SCOTT KEY 1779-1843 " O say ! can ...
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... beautiful bronze figure on a granite base marks his resting place in Frederick , Mary- land , and a monument in his honor , provided for in a bequest by James Lick , the founder of the Lick Observatory , adorns the Golden Gate Park ...
... beautiful bronze figure on a granite base marks his resting place in Frederick , Mary- land , and a monument in his honor , provided for in a bequest by James Lick , the founder of the Lick Observatory , adorns the Golden Gate Park ...
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... beautiful hymns ever written . " • If Dr. Sears had done nothing more , this one song would have sufficed to give him an assured place among our American hymn writers . But in 1849 he enriched our hymnody with that other glorious lyric ...
... beautiful hymns ever written . " • If Dr. Sears had done nothing more , this one song would have sufficed to give him an assured place among our American hymn writers . But in 1849 he enriched our hymnody with that other glorious lyric ...
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Page 267 - While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide ; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.
Page 151 - THOU art the Way : — to thee alone From sin and death we flee ; And he who would the Father seek, Must seek him, Lord, by thee. 2 Thou art the Truth : — thy word alone True wisdom can impart; Thou only canst inform the mind, And purify the heart. 3 Thou art the Life :— the rending tomb Proclaims thy conquering arm ; And those who put their trust in thee Nor death nor hell shall harm. 4 Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life; Grant us that Way to know, That Truth to keep, that Life to win, Whose...
Page 252 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 332 - O LITTLE town of Bethlehem ! How still we see thee lie ; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by ; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light ; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night.
Page 157 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world: Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing; And ever o'er its Babel-sounds The blessed angels sing.
Page 266 - MY faith looks up to thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour Divine ! Now hear me while I pray : Take all my guilt away ; O let me from this day Be wholly thine.
Page 145 - There is an hour of peaceful rest, To mourning wanderers given; There is a joy for souls distressed, A balm for every wounded breast, 'Tis found above — in heaven.
Page 158 - For lo! the days are hastening on, By prophet-bards foretold, When with the ever-circling years Comes round the age of gold ; When Peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing.
Page 241 - When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown...
Page 237 - I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!