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... eye - balls pour the day . ' Tis he th ' obstructed paths of sound shall clear , And bid new music charm the unfolding ear ; The dumb shall sing , the lame his crutch forego , And leap exulting like the bounding roe . As the good ...
... eye - balls pour the day . ' Tis he th ' obstructed paths of sound shall clear , And bid new music charm the unfolding ear ; The dumb shall sing , the lame his crutch forego , And leap exulting like the bounding roe . As the good ...
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... eye , When none but God is near . Prayer is the simplest form of speech , That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high . Prayer is the Christian's vital breath , The Christian's native air ; His ...
... eye , When none but God is near . Prayer is the simplest form of speech , That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high . Prayer is the Christian's vital breath , The Christian's native air ; His ...
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... , A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains , rejoicing in the sight , Eye the blue vault , and bless the useful light . So many flames before proud Ilion blaze , And lighten SUMMER FLOWERS . 31.
... , A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains , rejoicing in the sight , Eye the blue vault , and bless the useful light . So many flames before proud Ilion blaze , And lighten SUMMER FLOWERS . 31.
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... eye , or even the imagination , can stea- dily grasp at one time . But such an object , grand and extensive as it is , forms no more than the forty thousandth part of the " great globe itself : " so that before we can ac- quire an ...
... eye , or even the imagination , can stea- dily grasp at one time . But such an object , grand and extensive as it is , forms no more than the forty thousandth part of the " great globe itself : " so that before we can ac- quire an ...
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... eye , even although it were possible to be realized , would convey only a very vague and imperfect conception of the scenery of our world ; for ob- jects at the distance of forty miles cannot be distinctly perceived ; the only view ...
... eye , even although it were possible to be realized , would convey only a very vague and imperfect conception of the scenery of our world ; for ob- jects at the distance of forty miles cannot be distinctly perceived ; the only view ...
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Page 93 - All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 100 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 278 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 281 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 147 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace.
Page 26 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven: but thou art forever the same, rejoicing in...
Page 16 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Page 10 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 7 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 146 - Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.