 Beyond the starry pole, Descries athwart the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light Night is the time to pray : Our Saviour oft withdrew To desert mountains far away, So will his followers do ; Steal from the throng to haunts untrod, And hold communion...  The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 441edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...to muse— Beyond the starry pole Descries, athwart the abyss of night, The dawn of uncreated light! Then from the eye the soul Takes flight, and with expanding views, Our Saviour oft withdrew To desert mountains far away; Night is the time to pray— So will his followers... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - Congregational churches - 1854 - 300 pages
...spirit seek, 0 God, but thee ? NIGHT. " The morning cometh, and also the night." — Isa. xxi. 12. NIGHT is the time to muse ; Then, from the eye, the soul Takes flight ; and, with expanded views, Beyond the starry pole, Descries, athwart the abyss of night, The dawn of uncreated... | |
 | Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 488 pages
...how when the evening was come he was there "alone;" how he continued all NIGHT in prayer to Q•od. Night is the time to pray: Our Saviour oft withdrew To desert mountains far away ; Steal from the throng to haunts untrod, And commune there alone with God. That desire of being wise... | |
 | Charles Swain - 1857 - 340 pages
...tried: — Then, oh ! may Nations guard that name With filial power and pride! THE VOICE OF NIGHT. u Night is the time to muse; Then, from the eye, the soul Takes flight, and with expanding Tiews Beyond the starry pole, Descries athwart the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light." MONTGOMERY.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...to onr lonely tent ; . Like Brutus, midst his slumhering host, Startled hy Caesar's stalwart ghost. Night is the time to muse ; Then from the eye the soul Takes flight, and, with expanding vicws, Beyond the starry pole, Deserics, athwart the ahyss of night, The dawn of unereated light. Night... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...Come to our lonely tent; Like Brutus, 'midst his slumbering nost, Startled by Caesar's stalwart ghost Night is the time to muse; Then from the eye the soul Takes flight, and with expanding viewi Beyond the starry pole, Descries athwart the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light. Night... | |
 | Consolation - 1858 - 300 pages
...spirit seek, O God, but thee ? NIGHT. " The morning cometh, and also the night." — Isa. rri. 12. NIGHT is the time to muse ; Then, from the eye, the soul Takes flight ; and, with expanded views, Beyond the starry pole, Descries, athwart the abyss of night, The dawn of uncreated... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1860 - 414 pages
...from the eye, the soul Takes flight, and, on the utmost brink Of yonder starry pole, Discerns beyond the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light. Night...Saviour oft withdrew To desert mountains far away ; 866 So will his followers do, Steal from the throng to haunts untm,l, And commune then; alone with... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...full moon's earliest glance, That brings unto the home-sick mind Л11 we have loved and left behind. Night is the time to muse ; Then from the eye the...flight, and with expanding views Beyond the starry polo, Descries athwart the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light. Night is the time to pray :... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...glance, That britijjs unto the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. • * * • • 5. Night is the time to muse ; Then from the eye the...athwart the abyss of night The dawn of uncreated light. 6. Night is the time to pray, Our Saviour oft withdrew To desert mountains far away ; So will his followers... | |
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