 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.  Works: Life and Letters - Page 142by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Stainer - Hymns, English - 1902 - 900 pages
...flee, -L From strife and tumult far, From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. m 3 There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - Latin language - 1903 - 230 pages
...Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far, From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade With prayer and...made For those who follow thee. There, if thy Spirit teach the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love She communes with... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 390 pages
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 | John Hunter - Bible - 1904 - 920 pages
...flee ; From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where evil wages still Its most successful war. 2. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. 3. There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | English poetry - 188? - 986 pages
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 | Hymns, English - 1905 - 356 pages
...flee, — From strife and tumult far; From scenes where sin is waging still Its most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! Author and guardian of my life, Sweet source of light divine, And all harmonious names in one, —... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 948 pages
...Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts... | |
 | Grace Morrison Everett - Hymns - 1905 - 202 pages
...Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee." It is said that William Wilberforce, the English Abolitionist, repeated this hymn every morning while... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 916 pages
...him out best as a poet ; but rather his own special theme, the praise of Retirement. There if Tinl Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh with what peace, and joy, and lvve, She communes with her God ! " There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor askx... | |
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