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Page 11
... and green . And while my days glide fast away , That bear me to my latest rest ; I'll still in mem'ry's eye the spot survey , And be again in contemplation bless'd . Yet e'er my footsteps hence I turn , Doubtful again 11.
... and green . And while my days glide fast away , That bear me to my latest rest ; I'll still in mem'ry's eye the spot survey , And be again in contemplation bless'd . Yet e'er my footsteps hence I turn , Doubtful again 11.
Page 12
... turn , Doubtful again thy courts to tread ; While fancied fears my bosom warn , And anxious thoughts possess my head ; I'll breathe one pray'r , a pray'r sincere , As e'er from pious vot'ry fell , From modern puritan , or ancient seer ...
... turn , Doubtful again thy courts to tread ; While fancied fears my bosom warn , And anxious thoughts possess my head ; I'll breathe one pray'r , a pray'r sincere , As e'er from pious vot'ry fell , From modern puritan , or ancient seer ...
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... turn ? Where point my steps the awful cause to learn ? Suspense was short indeed - on looking round , The mighty cause lay stretch'd upon the ground . The massy Oak , whose hundred arms on high , Briareus like , seem'd Heaven to defy ...
... turn ? Where point my steps the awful cause to learn ? Suspense was short indeed - on looking round , The mighty cause lay stretch'd upon the ground . The massy Oak , whose hundred arms on high , Briareus like , seem'd Heaven to defy ...
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... turn beneath the conq'ror's sway . Lo ! where the lofty tow'rs of Belus lie , Belus , the tyrant of the eastern sky . Once in proud majesty she rear'd her head , The nation's envy and the nation's dread . Here in the pride of pow'r she ...
... turn beneath the conq'ror's sway . Lo ! where the lofty tow'rs of Belus lie , Belus , the tyrant of the eastern sky . Once in proud majesty she rear'd her head , The nation's envy and the nation's dread . Here in the pride of pow'r she ...
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... has fallen ; all her glories fled ; Her heroes mould'ring with the silent dead : And all that pow'r , or wealth , or honour gave , Is wrapp'd within time's all devouring grave . My muse here sickens , as she turns to see C 2 19.
... has fallen ; all her glories fled ; Her heroes mould'ring with the silent dead : And all that pow'r , or wealth , or honour gave , Is wrapp'd within time's all devouring grave . My muse here sickens , as she turns to see C 2 19.
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Page 128 - Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven ? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 127 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Page 118 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Page 118 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 126 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 126 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 130 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 118 - Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the...
Page 127 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Page 130 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.