Light for early days (hymns and verses).1861 |
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ANDREW COMBE angels art gone beautiful Beckenham blessed boat BOOK SOCIETY bright brother brow burning deck Buttercups cheerful child Coloured Wrappers dark dozen earth F. J. PERRY fair father fear feet flowers Gave thee gleam gliding golden grass grave green happy happy land hath hear heart heaven heavenly HOLY BIBLE Hosanna Hurrah HYMN Ilminster Jesus kiss lark leaf sounds LIGHT FOR EARLY little bird little children Little lamb little maiden lives are rivers Lord MANOR STREET meek morning light nest night o'er pet lamb post free pray prayer price 2d Ready reaper rejoice rest round S. M. HAUGHTON Saviour Second Thousand shining Singing glory sister sleep smiled song sorrow soul spring stars STREET CLAPHAM sweet mother tease my mother tell tender There's Thither thou art tiny rover Trees!-ye Twill vale voice weep wind wing
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Page 5 - I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Page 36 - I have naught that is fair?" saith he; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay...
Page 8 - Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go, • And ask for a share in His love ; And if I thus earnestly seek Him below, I shall see Him and hear Him above...
Page 21 - LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the beauteous land.
Page 4 - Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild, He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by his name.
Page 43 - Is it far away, in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold, Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand? Is it there, sweet mother! that better land? Not there, not there, my child ! Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy!
Page 36 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. My Lord has need of these flowerets gay, The Reaper said, and smiled : Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 26 - Book divine ! Precious treasure, thou art mine ; Mine to tell me whence I came ; Mine to teach me what I am.
Page 53 - THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest : — In lark and nightingale we see, What honour hath humility. When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus...
Page iii - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended And became a child like thee! Soft and easy is thy cradle: Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay, When His birthplace was a stable And His softest bed was hay.