 | 1837 - 90 lehte
...their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The... | |
 | 1837 - 116 lehte
...their golden sand : From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The... | |
 | Henry CARPENTER (Minister of St. Michael's, Liverpool.) - 1838 - 152 lehte
...their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle ; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, . And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Edward Davies (of Kingswinford) - 1839 - 296 lehte
...their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The... | |
 | James Harvey Linsley - 1839 - 432 lehte
...golden sand — From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us.to deli»er Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ? Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - 1839 - 780 lehte
...their golden sand, From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. « 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vije: In vain with lavish kindness The... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1840 - 136 lehte
...brought him near the coast. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft from Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in their blindness, Bow down to wood and atone ! The branches spread wide, and... | |
 | William Juvenal Colville - 1916 - 362 lehte
...of the singers to any high appreciation of divine wisdom when they declare in a preceding sentence, "In vain with lavish kindness the gifts of God are strewn." The reverential Hindoo has far too deep a sense of the wisdom of Deity to believe that God does anything... | |
 | Ebenezer E. Lewis - 1917 - 168 lehte
...Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile? In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1917 - 734 lehte
...er - ror's chain. A-MEN. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Can we, whose souls are lighted... | |
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What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 
