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... live and teach to pray . Come , UNKNOWN INSTRUCTOR , come ! Our leaping hearts shall make Thee room : Thou with Jove our hearts shalt share , Of Jove and Thee we are the care . O Father , King , whose heavenly face Shines serene on all ...
... live and teach to pray . Come , UNKNOWN INSTRUCTOR , come ! Our leaping hearts shall make Thee room : Thou with Jove our hearts shalt share , Of Jove and Thee we are the care . O Father , King , whose heavenly face Shines serene on all ...
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... live so furnish'd that we may With Him unto His wedding go ; Yea , though at midnight He should call , Let us be ready , lamps and all . And so provide before that feast , Which Christ His coming next doth mind , That He to come , and ...
... live so furnish'd that we may With Him unto His wedding go ; Yea , though at midnight He should call , Let us be ready , lamps and all . And so provide before that feast , Which Christ His coming next doth mind , That He to come , and ...
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... lives for the * The above passage is more conclusive in the Greek ; our English version having the misfortune of ambiguity in two or three particulars . Μνημονεύετε τῶν ηγουμένων υμῶν , οἵτινες ἐλάλησαν ̔υμῖν τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ · ὧν ...
... lives for the * The above passage is more conclusive in the Greek ; our English version having the misfortune of ambiguity in two or three particulars . Μνημονεύετε τῶν ηγουμένων υμῶν , οἵτινες ἐλάλησαν ̔υμῖν τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ · ὧν ...
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... lives , and for their happy deaths . Besides , they celebrated these days with great expressions of love and charity to the poor , and mutual rejoicings with one another , which were very sober and temperate , and such as became the ...
... lives , and for their happy deaths . Besides , they celebrated these days with great expressions of love and charity to the poor , and mutual rejoicings with one another , which were very sober and temperate , and such as became the ...
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... lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even , And opens in each heart a little heaven . Each other gift which God on man bestows , Its proper bounds and due restriction knows ; To one fixed purpose dedicates its power , And ...
... lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even , And opens in each heart a little heaven . Each other gift which God on man bestows , Its proper bounds and due restriction knows ; To one fixed purpose dedicates its power , And ...
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Page 63 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong: The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 104 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 63 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 134 - Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through' which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 89 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 63 - And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage' With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation.
Page 63 - Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 391 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Page 38 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 105 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus and the dog Anubis, haste.