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... Wandering thoughts and languid powers Come not where devotion kneels ; Let the soul expand her stores , Glowing with the joy she feels . 3 At the portals of thine house , We resign our earth - born cares : Nobler thoughts our souls ...
... Wandering thoughts and languid powers Come not where devotion kneels ; Let the soul expand her stores , Glowing with the joy she feels . 3 At the portals of thine house , We resign our earth - born cares : Nobler thoughts our souls ...
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... wandering thought , When on thy great name we call : Man is naught , is less than naught ; Thou , our God , art all in all . 3 Weak , imperfect creatures , we In this vale of darkness dwell , Yet presume to look to thee ' Midst thy ...
... wandering thought , When on thy great name we call : Man is naught , is less than naught ; Thou , our God , art all in all . 3 Weak , imperfect creatures , we In this vale of darkness dwell , Yet presume to look to thee ' Midst thy ...
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... wander wide and long , Thou hold'st us still in thine em- brace , - O love of God most strong ! 4 The saddened heart , the restless soul , The toil - worn frame and mind , Alike confess thy sweet control , - O love of God most kind ! 5 ...
... wander wide and long , Thou hold'st us still in thine em- brace , - O love of God most strong ! 4 The saddened heart , the restless soul , The toil - worn frame and mind , Alike confess thy sweet control , - O love of God most kind ! 5 ...
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... wandering thoughts and dreams of sin . 2 Those arms were round our childish ways , A guard thro ' helpless years to be ; O leave not our maturer days , We still are helpless without thee ! 3 We trusted hope and pride and strength ...
... wandering thoughts and dreams of sin . 2 Those arms were round our childish ways , A guard thro ' helpless years to be ; O leave not our maturer days , We still are helpless without thee ! 3 We trusted hope and pride and strength ...
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... wander ' mid the things of time , No more to suffer death or earthly change , But with the Christian's joy and faith sublime Through all thy vast eternal scenes to range . Rev. Jones Very , 1813 A - MEN . -6 . ST . LEONARD C. M. D. H. ...
... wander ' mid the things of time , No more to suffer death or earthly change , But with the Christian's joy and faith sublime Through all thy vast eternal scenes to range . Rev. Jones Very , 1813 A - MEN . -6 . ST . LEONARD C. M. D. H. ...
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adore Alleluia AMEN angels Barnby bb4 A-MEN bless blest breath bright calm Charles Wesley Christ crown darkness dear death divine dwell earth eternal everlasting evermore eyes faith Father fear forever Frederick W give glad glorious glory God's Godfrey Thring gracious hast hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy hope Horatius Bonar hour Hymn Isaac Watts J. B. Dykes James Montgomery Jerusalem the golden Jesus John King Let thy life's light live Lord mercy morning Nearer night o'er pain path peace Philip Doddridge praise pray prayer Reginald Heber reign Rejoice rest rise saints Samuel Longfellow Saviour shadow shine sing Sir John Bowring skies song sorrow soul stars strength sweet tears thee thine thou art thought thro thy hand thy love thy presence thy throne thy word toil trust truth voice wait weary William Cowper wings wonders
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Page 278 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark: And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 342 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Page 106 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our Infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 382 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 301 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 100 - While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, 'Be Thou my Guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.
Page 289 - From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 93 - COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening powers ; Kindle a flame of sacred love » In these cold hearts of ours.
Page 162 - Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, And with the angels bear thy part, Who all night long, unwearied, sing High praise to the eternal King.
Page 20 - O God, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come, Our Shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal Home...