The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the YearW. Baxter, 1827 - 367 pages |
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... - Ye fragrant clouds of dewy steam , By which deep grove and tangled stream Pay , for soft rains in season given , Their tribute to the genial heaven ; — B Why waste your treasures of delight Upon our thankless , Morning.
... - Ye fragrant clouds of dewy steam , By which deep grove and tangled stream Pay , for soft rains in season given , Their tribute to the genial heaven ; — B Why waste your treasures of delight Upon our thankless , Morning.
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... deep for mortal sense : - When with dear friends sweet talk I hold , And all the flowers of life unfold ; - Let not my heart within me burn , Except in all I Thee discern . -- When the soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently ...
... deep for mortal sense : - When with dear friends sweet talk I hold , And all the flowers of life unfold ; - Let not my heart within me burn , Except in all I Thee discern . -- When the soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently ...
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... deep embrue Man's sullen heart and gross- " Jesu , do Thou my soul receive : " Jesu , do Thou my foes forgive : " He who would learn that prayer , must live Under the holy Cross . He , though he seem on earth to move , Must glide in air ...
... deep embrue Man's sullen heart and gross- " Jesu , do Thou my soul receive : " Jesu , do Thou my foes forgive : " He who would learn that prayer , must live Under the holy Cross . He , though he seem on earth to move , Must glide in air ...
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... trophies ? where The glorious dint a martyr's shield should bear ? How chance no cheek among them wears The deep - worn trace of penitential tears , But all is bright and smiling love , As if The Holy Innocents . 31 The Holy Innocents.
... trophies ? where The glorious dint a martyr's shield should bear ? How chance no cheek among them wears The deep - worn trace of penitential tears , But all is bright and smiling love , As if The Holy Innocents . 31 The Holy Innocents.
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... Deep in the heart , her searching view Can read where Faith is fix'd and true , Through shades of setting life can see Heaven's work begun . O Thou , who keep'st the Key of Love , Open thy fount , eternal Dove , And overflow this heart ...
... Deep in the heart , her searching view Can read where Faith is fix'd and true , Through shades of setting life can see Heaven's work begun . O Thou , who keep'st the Key of Love , Open thy fount , eternal Dove , And overflow this heart ...
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Page 163 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire ; and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Page 8 - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 109 - And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. 25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Page 75 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 355 - Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
Page 141 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 6 - 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 164 - WHEN God of old came down from heaven, in power and wrath he came; before his feet the clouds were riven, half darkness and half flame.
Page 331 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God : and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Page 243 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.