| 1853 - 666 páginas
...— death, life ! how curious it is." And then the broad chest sank. His spirit was with his God. " So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." America has produced three men of the first order of mind. The first, on account of his public services,... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1847 - 670 páginas
...closing eyes! p> How gently heaves th' expiring breast! mp 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks a gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; p So dies a wave along the shore. mp 8 A holy quiet reigns around, — A calm which life nor death... | |
| 1844 - 636 páginas
...to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. So fades a sammer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
| John Frost - 1887 - 270 páginas
...to rest, How mildly teams the closing eye 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 upon the shore.' " CHAPTER XXIV. SPEECHES IN CONGRESS — FUNERAL HONORS — BURIAL AT LEXINGTON... | |
| John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - 1888 - 552 páginas
...calmly, realizing the last verse of one of her sweetest and best known hymns : " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er,...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Life's duty done — as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth... | |
| Edward W. De Knight - 1889 - 582 páginas
...it should come — gently — and he quietly and imperceptibly passed to his long repose. So fades a summer's cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Gathered about the couch at his last moments were his agonized son, his bodyservant, his secretary,... | |
| Lewis Ward Mudge - 1889 - 254 páginas
...VESPER. 8.7. 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;...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; And naught disturbs that peace... | |
| Augusta Temple - 1889 - 318 páginas
...sofa and read a story, to Elva's delight, — it ended with these lines added, — " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er,...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." " And so will all our sorrows fade away on the shore of eternity with that last wave from this troubled... | |
| Henry Martin Sanders, George Claude Lorimer - 1889 - 472 páginas
...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...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; And naught disturbs that peace profound,... | |
| James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 páginas
...is absolutely inviting. And do we not behold oimilar scenes in nature? Yes, — " So fades a summer cloud away: So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." So nearly perfect is the true Christian's death that while we mourn the departure of the loved one,... | |
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