 Far better they should sleep awhile Within the church's shade, Nor wake, until new heaven, new earth, Meet for their new immortal birth For their abiding-place be made, " Than wander back to life, and lean On our frail' love once more. 'T is sweet, as...  The note book of a country clergyman - Seite 280von Samuel Wilberforce (bp. of Winchester.) - 1833 - 302 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Julia S. Blott - 1865 - 184 Seiten
...shade, Nor wake, until new Heaven new earth, Meet for their new immortal birth, For their abiding place be made. "Than wander back to life, and lean On our frail lovexrace more, "T is sweet as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows... | |
 | 1866 - 578 Seiten
...np our treasures and onr crown, And our lost loved ones will be found again." — LYRA CAELESTI?. " 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, to mace IIow grows in Paradise our store." DIOCESAN MISSIONS. At the last Convention a canon was enacted,... | |
 | John Frewen Moor - 1867 - 358 Seiten
...can know but little here b." And we may say of them in the words of the Christian Poet himself: — " Far better they should sleep awhile Within the Church's...back to life, and lean On our frail love once more." (Hymn for Burial of the Dead.) Again, how beautifully appropriate with regard to Mr. and Mrs. KEBLE... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - 1867 - 534 Seiten
...immortal birth For their abiding-place be made, 82 COMMUNINGvS. Than wander back to life, and lean Oii our frail love once more. 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in Faith to muse IIow grows in Paradise our store. Then pass, ye mourners, cheerly on, Through prayer unto the tomb,... | |
 | John Keble - 1868 - 452 Seiten
...its call ; we gladlier rest Our darlings on earth's quiet breast, And our hearts feel thoy must uot break. Far better they should sleep awhile Within...year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse Then pass, ye mourners, cheerly on, Through prayer unto the tomb, Still, as ye watch life's falling... | |
 | William Amherst Hayne - 1873 - 82 Seiten
...earth's quiet breast, And our hearts feel they must not break. Far better they should sleep awhile, Nor wake until new heaven, new earth, Meet for their...back to life, and lean On our frail love once more." And now that, " dust to dust, ashes to ashes," you have laid your loved one's earthly shell to rest... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1874 - 444 Seiten
...is father to the thought, there is surely more comfort in realizing the exquisite words of Keble— Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight on earth, to muse How grows in Paradise our store. The following are the Thoughts in the Sick-room... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 396 Seiten
...must have been to them compared with what it is to us, and how truly the Christian poet says of us, " 'Tis sweet as, year by year, we lose Friends out of sight on earth, to muse How grows in Paradise our store." One cannot help alluding incidentally to this ;... | |
 | John Keble - 1876 - 262 Seiten
...that voice — and though not yet The dead sit up and speak, Answering its call ; we gladlier rest Our darlings on earth's quiet breast, And our hearts...back to life, and lean On our frail love once more. "Pis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our... | |
 | Immortelles - 1876 - 264 Seiten
...of time and space for ever pass away. CAMW S7 THOU, LORD, HAST NOT FORSAKEN THEM. Ps. ix. 10. •pAR better they should sleep awhile •*^ Within the Church's...back to life, and lean On our frail love once more. Keblf. June 7. LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED. Isas. xlv. 22. T IGHT reveal'd through clouds of pain,... | |
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