| Herbert Mends - 1801 - 432 pages
...Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, T'wards heaven thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove : Rise, my soul, and haste away, To seats prepar'd above.. IT. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| George Richards - Hymns, English - 1806 - 394 pages
...•*•*- Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove: Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course: Fire ascending seeks the sun,... | |
| George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all...seeks the sun, ^ Both speed them to their source : So a soul, that's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face, Upward tends to his abode, To rest in... | |
| George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, Tow'rds heav'n, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away . To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, Tow'rds heav'n, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the sun,... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - Hymns - 1812 - 980 pages
...better portion trace; *"' Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun... | |
| Missions - 1851 - 772 pages
...growing " in grace and iu the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." " Uivers to tlio occnn run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending...the sun ; — Both speed them to their source: So a eoul that 's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face; Upwards tends to his abode, To rest in... | |
| Stevenson MacGill - Hymns, English - 1813 - 278 pages
...wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, To heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars decay, Time shall soon this earth remove: Rise, my soul, and wing thy way To seats prepar'd above. 4 Cease, O Christians! cease to mourn, Press onward to the prize;... | |
| 1846 - 612 pages
...rivers. Henry. Then the poet, father, was more of a philosopher than I supposed, when he wrote — " Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course...seeks the Sun — Both speed them to their source." I have often questioned the correctness of this verse, as I never before realized the fact that the... | |
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