 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1822 - 520 pages
...we grovel Tiere below, Fond of theee earthly toys ; Our souls how heavily they go, To reach eternal joys ! 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise ; Hosaunas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 4 Father, and shall we ever live, At this... | |
 | Brick Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) - Presbyterian Church - 1823 - 198 pages
...Dove, With all thy quick'ning powers. Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. 2 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 3 Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate, Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1824 - 636 pages
...we grovel here below, Fond of these earthly toys ; Our souls, how heavily they go To reach eternal joys. 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain...languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 4 And shall we, Lord, for ever live At this poor dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And... | |
 | Asahel Nettleton - Hymns, English - 1824 - 498 pages
...Dove, With all thy quick'ning pow'rs, — Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. 2 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 3 Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live ir'..At this poor, dying rate ? O tip love so faint, so cold to... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 248 pages
...while ours is so limited, and so minute, it eludes research ! " Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate ? Our love so faint, so cold to thec, And thine to us so great ?'' W. NEVINS. CHARACTER OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLHS. INSTEAD of expecting... | |
 | 1825 - 208 pages
...of these trifling toys ; Our souls can neither fly nor go, To reach eternal joys. 3 In vain we turn our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas...our devotion dies. 4 Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live, At this poor dying rate ; Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And thine to us so great ? 5 Come,... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - Hymns, English - 1825 - 382 pages
...grovel here below, Fond of these earthly toys,; Our souls, how heavily they go, To reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. Dear Lord ! and shall we always be In this poor dying state ? Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And... | |
 | 1825 - 260 pages
...bes't, how slow, To gain eternal joys ! 3 In vain we tune our lifeless songs .;- ' In vain attempt to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion d'ies. 4 In hearttess prayers, and weak complaint, Shall all our days be past ? Our love to Thee, O Lord ! so... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1825 - 232 pages
...toys : Our souls, how heavily they go , . To reach eternal joys ! 3 In vain we tune our formal song*, In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And pur devotion dies. : Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate, Our love so faint,... | |
 | Baptists - 1835 - 506 pages
...direction of our own finite knowledge, of our own earthly impulse,- If such he our feelings it is, "In vain we tune our formal songs; — In vain we strive to rine: — I iu-.uiiM langnish on our tongnes, And our devotion dies! " But it is far more easy to give... | |
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In vain we tune our formal songs ; In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 
