The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the YearW. Baxter, 1827 - 367 pages |
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... soft touch invisible Around his path are taught to swell ; - Thou rustling breeze so fresh and gay , That dancest forth at opening day , And brushing by with joyous wing , Wakenest each little leaf to sing ; - Ye fragrant clouds of dewy ...
... soft touch invisible Around his path are taught to swell ; - Thou rustling breeze so fresh and gay , That dancest forth at opening day , And brushing by with joyous wing , Wakenest each little leaf to sing ; - Ye fragrant clouds of dewy ...
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... soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep , Be my last thought , how sweet to rest For ever on my Saviour's breast . Abide with me from morn till eve , For without Thee I cannot live : Abide with me when night is nigh ...
... soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep , Be my last thought , how sweet to rest For ever on my Saviour's breast . Abide with me from morn till eve , For without Thee I cannot live : Abide with me when night is nigh ...
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... soft green isle appears : Pause where we may upon the desert road , Some shelter is in sight , some sacred safe abode . When withering blasts of error swept the sky , And Love's last flower seem'd fain to droop and die , How sweet , how ...
... soft green isle appears : Pause where we may upon the desert road , Some shelter is in sight , some sacred safe abode . When withering blasts of error swept the sky , And Love's last flower seem'd fain to droop and die , How sweet , how ...
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... soft from summer skies , As o'er a sleeping infant's eyes A mother's kiss ; ere calls like these , No sunny gleam awakes the trees , Nor dare the tender flowerets show Their bosoms to th ' uncertain glow . Why then , in sad and wintry ...
... soft from summer skies , As o'er a sleeping infant's eyes A mother's kiss ; ere calls like these , No sunny gleam awakes the trees , Nor dare the tender flowerets show Their bosoms to th ' uncertain glow . Why then , in sad and wintry ...
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... h Rhododendrons : with which the western bank of the lake is said to be clothed down to the water's edge . Spread their soft breasts , unheeding , to the breeze Third Sunday in Advent . 15 Third Sunday in Advent The Travellers ·
... h Rhododendrons : with which the western bank of the lake is said to be clothed down to the water's edge . Spread their soft breasts , unheeding , to the breeze Third Sunday in Advent . 15 Third Sunday in Advent The Travellers ·
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