 | Leisure hour, Robert Barnard - 1811 - 218 pages
...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 shuts, the *ye of <Uy ; So dies, a wave along the shore. Triumphant, smiles the victor-brow, Fann'd by some angel's... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 268 pages
...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 the wave along the shore. *' Triumphant, smiles the victor brow ; Fanned by some angel's purple Oh... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...by steady reliance on the Saviour and His kingdom, until gradually the motion ceased. " So fades the summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." Her remains were interred at Highgate on May 25th, and the beautiful service of the New Church was... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 pages
...TTO W bless'd the righteous when he dies^ J.JL When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast....summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms ate. tf« \ So fi-entJy shuts the eve of day, So dies a wave along the shove. 3 A holy quiet reigns... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1849 - 428 pages
...with Him, whom for eighteen years she had ardently loved and faithfully served. So fades a summer's cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a ware along the shore; Such is the scene where Christians die, When holy souls retire to rest; How mildly... | |
 | 1820 - 982 pages
...beam the closing eyes! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks a gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. An extract from the original manuscript of a letter written on the event, by Matthew Henry to the Rev.... | |
 | Selection - Hymns, English - 1822 - 276 pages
...die*, J3 When sinks a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ;...dies a wave along the shore* 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's gentle wing : Oh Grave ! where is thy victory now ? Invidious... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...heaves th' expiring breast! Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a righteous soul to rest; So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing: O grave! where is thy vict'ry... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Bible - 1823 - 376 pages
...subject. 1 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....are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies the wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's heavenly wing... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 450 pages
...a righteous 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...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing;— Where is, O Grave! thy victory... | |
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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 shuts the eye of day : So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's... 
