 | 1810 - 420 σελίδες
...RIGHTEOUS. From the " Leisure Hour Improved." Sweet is '.he scene when virtue dies; When' links a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves th' expiring breast So fides a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er , So gently... | |
 | 1877 - 588 σελίδες
...he breathed his last, on Monday, the 6th of August, 1877, in the 81st year of his age. " How bleat the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...gently heaves the expiring breast. " So fades a summer oloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave-... | |
 | Leisure hour, Robert Barnard - 1811 - 218 σελίδες
...to live ! B. The Death of the Righteous. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a righteous soul to rest : How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades, a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er; So gently... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 σελίδες
...destroy'd. X THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away : So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently... | |
 | 1813 - 268 σελίδες
...orators." POETRY. THE DEATH OF THE RIHGTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when virtue dies, When sinks a rightcous soul to rest; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies... | |
 | 1854 - 834 σελίδες
...the spirit passed away on softest pinions. " How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks the weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast. " Life's labour done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven and earth... | |
 | 1853 - 840 σελίδες
...although deeply feeling the loss they had sustained, all could say— " ' How blest the righteous when lie dies/ When sinks a weary soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eye«, How gently heaves the expiring breast. Lire's labour done, so sinks the clay; Light from its... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 σελίδες
...o'er the grave. HYMN 166. LM The death of the righteous, 1 TTOW bless'd the righteous when he dies, XI When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | 1816 - 802 σελίδες
...Happy are those who die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours — and their works follow them. " 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." How mysterious to us are the... | |
 | 1817 - 710 σελίδες
...dies. Where sinks a /ighteous soul to resi: How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades a Summer cloud away, So...the gale, when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the closing day, So dies the ware along the shore. Each duty done — as sinks the clay, Light, from its... | |
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How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day... 
