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Страница 197 - The God of Abraham praise ! At whose supreme command From earth I rise — and seek the joys At his right hand ; I all on earth forsake, Its wisdom, fame, and power, And him my only portion make, My shield and tower.
Страница 197 - Though nature's strength decay, And earth and hell withstand, To Canaan's bounds I urge my way At His command : The watery deep I pass, With Jesus in my view; And through the howling wilderness My way pursue.
Страница 213 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. 2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth : and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 The Lord comfort him, when he lieth sick upon his bed : make thou all his bed in his sickness.
Страница 171 - THE BIRD, LET LOOSE. (AIR. — BEETHOVEN. ) THE bird, let loose in eastern skies,* When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam. But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
Страница 238 - When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, When airs from paradise refresh my brow, The earth in darkness lies. In a purer clime, My being fills with rapture — waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit — strains sublime Break over me unsought. Give me now my lyre ! I feel the stirrings of a gift divine ; Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
Страница 345 - The fruit is dead, and yet the leaves are green ; My youth is gone, and yet I am but young ; I saw the world, and yet I was not seen : 10 My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun ; And now I live, and now my life is done...
Страница 329 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hide« Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Страница 187 - Is this a time for moonlight dreams Of love and home by mazy streams, For Fancy with her shadowy toys, Aerial hopes and pensive joys, While souls are wandering far and wide And curses swarm on every side...
Страница 318 - O send thy word of command to rebuke the raging Winds, and the roaring Sea ; that we, being delivered from this distress, may live to serve thee, and to glorify thy name all the days of our life.
Страница 364 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!

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