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... Child at Play The Dial of Flowers The Convict Ship · Song of the Angels at Bethlehem . Heavenly Mindedness The Sabbath A Fragment Prayer answered by Affliction The Second Coming of Christ Daffodils Stanzas On the Death of a Friend SIR ...
... Child at Play The Dial of Flowers The Convict Ship · Song of the Angels at Bethlehem . Heavenly Mindedness The Sabbath A Fragment Prayer answered by Affliction The Second Coming of Christ Daffodils Stanzas On the Death of a Friend SIR ...
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... Children . Pleasure not found in the World . Love of Parents Death of a Christian Invocation . Death · Resignation Sea - Side Thoughts " What thou knowest not now , thou shalt know hereafter " PAGE W. HOWITT 201 MARY HOWITT 203 J ...
... Children . Pleasure not found in the World . Love of Parents Death of a Christian Invocation . Death · Resignation Sea - Side Thoughts " What thou knowest not now , thou shalt know hereafter " PAGE W. HOWITT 201 MARY HOWITT 203 J ...
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... child ! And Zion's favoured eye grown dim , Knew not her promised Lord in Him The lowly and the mild ! She saw the manger and the tree , And scornful cried- " Can this be He ? " ANON . Best Wishes . WHо art thou , stranger ! Nay The ...
... child ! And Zion's favoured eye grown dim , Knew not her promised Lord in Him The lowly and the mild ! She saw the manger and the tree , And scornful cried- " Can this be He ? " ANON . Best Wishes . WHо art thou , stranger ! Nay The ...
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... child Bending , her soul brake forth , in mingled sounds Of weeping and sad song .- " Alas ! " she cried- 66 Alas , my boy ! thy gentle grasp is on me , The bright tears quiver in thy pleading eyes , And now fond thoughts arise , And ...
... child Bending , her soul brake forth , in mingled sounds Of weeping and sad song .- " Alas ! " she cried- 66 Alas , my boy ! thy gentle grasp is on me , The bright tears quiver in thy pleading eyes , And now fond thoughts arise , And ...
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... child ? -Will He not hear thee Who the young ravens heareth from their nest ? Will He not guard thy rest , And , in the hush of holy midnight hear thee , Breathe o'er thy soul , and fill its dreams with joy ? Thou shalt sleep soft , my ...
... child ? -Will He not hear thee Who the young ravens heareth from their nest ? Will He not guard thy rest , And , in the hush of holy midnight hear thee , Breathe o'er thy soul , and fill its dreams with joy ? Thou shalt sleep soft , my ...
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Page 200 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.
Page 57 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 90 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control, But in the quietness of thought.
Page 58 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 163 - WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonish'd lands, The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimson'd sands Return'd the fiery column's glow.
Page 111 - Thou art gone to the grave ! we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough path of the world by thy side ; But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may hope, since the Sinless has died.
Page 89 - STERN Daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove...
Page 57 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 190 - Christ is born, the great Anointed, Heaven and earth his praises sing; O ! receive, whom God appointed, For your Prophet, Priest, and King. 5 Hasten, mortals, to adore Him, Learn his name and taste his joy; Till in heaven ye sing before Him, Glory be to God most high...
Page 232 - The changing spirit's rise and fall ; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all. He suffer'd, — but his pangs are o'er ; Enjoy'd, — but his delights are fled ; Had friends, — his friends are now no more ; And foes, — his foes are dead.