BENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given ; Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven. 2 Their names are graven on the stone, Their bones are in the clay ; And ere another day is done, Ourselves may be as they. Poems - Page 143by Reginald Heber - 1830 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Isaac Watts - Bible - 1850 - 742 pages
...glory thine. Slrapfum. DEATH. 599 Uncertainty of Life. CM 1 "DENE ATH our feet and o'er our head -D Is equal warning given ; Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven. 2 Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower ; Each season has its own disease,... | |
| Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...With holy beauties shine. VII. MODERN: DECEASED WRITERS. " LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO OTHERS. . ENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given...Their bones are in the clay ; And ere another day is gone, Ourselves may be as they. Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower ; Each... | |
| Henry Kemp Richardson - 1851 - 364 pages
...descending In His temple shall appear; Come and worship, Worship Christ, the new-born King. 1 BENEATH our feet, and o'er our head, Is equal warning given...us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven. 2 Their names are graven on the stone ; Then- bones are in the clay ; And, ere another day is gone,... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1851 - 638 pages
...features trace, And still renew the fond embrace. 531. CM HEEEK Universal Warning of Death. 1 BENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given...us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven ! 2 Their names are graven on the stone, Their bones are in the clay ; And ere another day is done,... | |
| Hymns - Anthems - 1851 - 266 pages
...cheek of sorrow Wipes the latest tear. Peculiar. The fashion of this world passeth away. 1. Beneath our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given...us lie the countless dead, Above us is the Heaven. 2. Our eyes have seen the rosy light On youth's soft cheek decay, And death descend in sudden night... | |
| Hymns, English - 1851 - 494 pages
...mount! I fly! " O Grave, where is thy victory? O Death, where is thy sting?" SONG 295— CM BENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given; Beneath us lie the countless dead, And far above is heaven. Death rides on ev'ry passing breeze, And lurks in ev'ry flower; Each season... | |
| George Barrell Cheever, Joseph E. Sweetser - Hymns, English - 1851 - 256 pages
...Jesus Can do helpless sinners good. Hart. CM BURFORD (p. 54). A Wancing from the Grave. 1. BENEATH our feet, and o'er our head, Is equal warning given : Beneath us lie the countless dead, And far above is heaven. 2. Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower; Each season... | |
| Lowell Mason, David Greene - Bible - 1851 - 592 pages
...flesh, We'll rise above the sky. jj Warning from Vie Grave. BENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equai warning given : Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven ! 2 Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower ; Each season has its own disease,... | |
| Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...hosannas raise : My soul shall glow with gratitude, My lips proclaim Thy praise. 169. Funeral. Beneath our feet, and o'er our head, Is equal warning given...every flower : Each season has its own disease ; Its perils, every hour. o • Turn, Mortal, turn ! thy danger know ; Where'er thy foot can tread The earth... | |
| George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...shed, And be thy feast to us the token That by thy grace our souls are fed ! AT A FUNERAL. BENEATH our feet and o'er our head, Is -equal warning' given;...names are graven on the stone, Their bones are in this clay ; And ere another day is done, Ourselves may be as they. Death rides on every passing breeze,... | |
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