 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1851 - 396 pages
...withheld—the blessings asked, and far more than asked, will come down, as showers that water the earth. O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true! Scenes of accomplish'd...Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy 1 JUDGES. PRAYER OF MANOAH. Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1851 - 222 pages
...the earth's grand jubilee ! " 0 scenes surpassing fable ! and yet true, — Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Ilivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...love; And what his storms have blasted and defac'd For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair. O, scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplish'd...feel His soul refresh'd with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And cloths all climes with beauty; the reproach Of barrenness... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pages
...labour, were a task more arduous still. O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...kindle into glowing utterance : — "Oh scenes surpassing fable, and yet true! Scenes of accomplished bliss, which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy?" And however far in the future may be the realization of this,... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - Bible - 1860 - 460 pages
...in the house of her pilgrimage. " Oh, scenes surpassing fable, and yet true ! Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ! One song employs all nations ; and all cry. Worthy the Lamb,... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1861 - 286 pages
...inherit the land for ever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified." " 0 scenes surpassing fable, and yet true ! Scenes of...feel His soul refresh'd with foretaste of the joy ? " Still, this sublime description of the earth as it shall be in the millennial epoch, with others... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Religious poetry, American - 1861 - 364 pages
...trust the larger hope. THE MILLENNIUM. O SCENES surpassing fable? and yet true. Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...labour, were a task more arduous still. Oh scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect,...feel His soul refresh'd with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty ; the reproach Of barrenness... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...labour, were a task more arduous still. O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes... | |
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O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplish'd bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refresh'd with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty... 
