 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Bible - 1840 - 762 pages
...rest ! How mildly beams the closing eye ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away : ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...shuts the eye of day : So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate dwell ! s How bright th'... | |
 | Andrew Preston Peabody - Hymns, English - 1840 - 178 pages
...rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 3 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm, which life nor death destroys ; And nought disturbs that peace... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodist conferences - 1856 - 196 pages
...! ~t How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." 3. Rev. JARED HARBISON YOUNG was born in Aaronsburgh, Centre County, Pa., April 14, 1810. He was the... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1840 - 760 pages
...rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, — A calm which life nor death destroys; And naught disturbs that peace... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's literature - 1840 - 290 pages
...to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a Summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ; Where is, C) Grave ! thy victory... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1840 - 498 pages
...rest : How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies the wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | Christian education - 1847 - 720 pages
...smiles and speaks : his words are, — " AVelcome, joy ! " His spirit has departed : " Life's lahour done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; "While heaven and earth combine to say, 'How blest the righteous when he dies !' " Who among us says not, " Let me die the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's literature - 1840 - 276 pages
...alternate dwell ; How bright the unchanging morn appears ! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! Its duly done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While Heaven and earth combine to say, ' Sweet is the scene, when Virtue dies !' HYMN. PRAISE to God, immortal praise,* For... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...without a sigh or a struggle, bis head dropped upon his chest, — and he was gone. " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...wave along the shore. Life's duty done, as sinks the day, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven and earth combine to say, How blest the righteous... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pages
...regret ? No, not one. Quietly he falls asleep on the bosom of the Infinite Father. " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." Britain mourns as one who weepeth for her first-born. " All too soon, too soon. We could ill spare... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 
