When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters are few, And that number more than true, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! Lives of Sacred Poets - Page 176by Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...passing-bell doth toll, And the Furies, in a shoal, Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort mo ! When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters...Spirit, comfort me ! When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said Because my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When,... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When the passing-bell doth toll, And the Furies in л shoal Come to fight FV- = -0 u<FCGC A / F:FD< B~;q-r- A 6 E E DUG F G FfD @ @ @ B`C C.G/G0G ; B , F E 8RF C F$G% fun-, Aud that number more than trne, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When the priest his last hath prayed,... | |
| English sacred lyrics - Christian poetry - 1884 - 296 pages
...nothing, but to kill, Sweet Spirit comfort me ! When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul ; Sweet Spirit comfort...Spirit comfort me ! When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decayed ; Sweet Spirit comfort me ! When,... | |
| Robert Herrick, Francis Turner Palgrave - 1884 - 240 pages
...comfort m When the passing-bell doth toll And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters...Spirit, comfort me ! When the priest his last hath And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decayM, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When, God knows,... | |
| Christian life - 1884 - 806 pages
...Sweet, Home" and "Allan Water," she drifted on to one of the verses of Herrick's quaint Litany : — " When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters...number more than true. Sweet Spirit, comfort me." From that she passed to — and sang with the most touching abandon — the sweet Psalm of the young... | |
| Christian life - 1884 - 810 pages
...and " Allan Water," she drifted on to one of the verses of Herrick's quaint Litany : — " When tho tapers now burn blue, And the comforters are few,...number more than true, Sweet Spirit, comfort me." From that she passed to — and sang with the most touching abandon — the sweet Psalm of the young... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1884 - 342 pages
...nothing but to kill, Sweet Spirit, comfort me When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said 'Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit,... | |
| Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1885 - 330 pages
...but to kill, Sweet Spirit, comfort me 1 When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort...Spirit, comfort me ! \ When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said 'Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1885 - 528 pages
...passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me I When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters...priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay'd, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When, God knows, I'm tost about, Either... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - Hymns, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...comfort me ! When the passing-bell doth toll, And the Furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul ; When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters...Priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay'd ; Sweet Spirit comfort me ! When (GoD knows) I'm toss'd about, Either... | |
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