 | 1810 - 420 pagine
...THE 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 shuts the eye of day... | |
 | 1877 - 588 pagine
...August, 1877, in the 81st year of his age. " How bleat the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves the expiring breast. " So fades a summer oloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | Leisure hour, Robert Barnard - 1811 - 218 pagine
...therefore, to thy creature give, With thine own righteous seed to live ! B. The Death of the Righteous. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a...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 eye u! day ; So dies,... | |
 | 1811 - 462 pagine
...fautastics forbear," Cry'd Common Sense, — " address her as you art" H. THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a...righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eye* ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away So sinks the gale, when... | |
 | 1812 - 356 pagine
...courses of philosophy, and abridgements, and documenting in the universe. , The Death of the Righteous, Sweet is the scene when virtue dies, When sinks a...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... | |
 | 1854 - 834 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 268 pagine
...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... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pagine
...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 shuts the eve of... | |
 | 1816 - 802 pagine
...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 pagine
...state of blessedness. " Sweet is the scene where Virtue dies. Where sinks a /ighteous soul to resi: How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves...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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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. 
