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... praise , and prayer , However short or long it be , We need but little care ; Because Eternity will last , When life , and death itself , are past . J. TAYLOR . THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT . WHO are these around the throne , 66 Singing to ...
... praise , and prayer , However short or long it be , We need but little care ; Because Eternity will last , When life , and death itself , are past . J. TAYLOR . THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT . WHO are these around the throne , 66 Singing to ...
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... praise shall cease no more ; God is with them night and day . While eternity endures , While the Self - Existent lives , He their perfect bliss secures , Everlasting glory gives . T. CHALLIS . HOME . THERE is a land , of every land the ...
... praise shall cease no more ; God is with them night and day . While eternity endures , While the Self - Existent lives , He their perfect bliss secures , Everlasting glory gives . T. CHALLIS . HOME . THERE is a land , of every land the ...
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... praises join the morning breeze , And soar aloft to reach the skies . O what a feast ! how richly spread ! Stupendous love ! transcendent grace ! If Jesus o'er his people shed The radiant beauties of his face . What inward peace the ...
... praises join the morning breeze , And soar aloft to reach the skies . O what a feast ! how richly spread ! Stupendous love ! transcendent grace ! If Jesus o'er his people shed The radiant beauties of his face . What inward peace the ...
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... to cheer our hearts , And bid us grieve no more . Yes ! all is hush'd , and nature's God Proclaims , " This is the day , A sabbath set apart for man To love and praise and pray . " THE MARINERS OF ENGLAND . YE mariners of England ! 33.
... to cheer our hearts , And bid us grieve no more . Yes ! all is hush'd , and nature's God Proclaims , " This is the day , A sabbath set apart for man To love and praise and pray . " THE MARINERS OF ENGLAND . YE mariners of England ! 33.
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... praise ; Ten thousand harps attune the mystic song , Ten thousand thousand saints the strain prolong : " Worthy the Lamb ! omnipotent to save , Who died , who lives , triumphant o'er the grave ! " HEBER . THE DESTROYING ANGEL . " To ...
... praise ; Ten thousand harps attune the mystic song , Ten thousand thousand saints the strain prolong : " Worthy the Lamb ! omnipotent to save , Who died , who lives , triumphant o'er the grave ! " HEBER . THE DESTROYING ANGEL . " To ...
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angel Art Thou ask'd beauty behold beneath beneath the sky BERNARD BARTON bless blest bliss bloom breath breeze bright celestial child dead dear death deep delight DESCRIPTIVE POETRY dust to dust dwell Earth to earth earthly eternal fair Father Father's Name flood flowers glorious glory grace grave green happiest happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy homes of England hour humble Israel Jesus Learn to labour life's light live Lord loves me best MILLENNIAL SABBATH mountains moving heart night night into morning o'er pass'd path peace perfect bliss praise pray prayer reign rest rise round sabbath bell sacred Saviour's shine shore sleep smile song soul Speak gently spirit star by star storm stormy tempests blow strange hills sweet tear tell thee thine Thou art thought throne Thy neighbour toil tomb trees Twas voice
Popular passages
Page 73 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 33 - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 34 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 37 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 43 - They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth. But love is indestructible— Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.