The Invalid's Hymn-book: Being a Selection of Hymns Appropriate to the Sick-room, Original Or Translated

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J.T. Hayes, 1866 - 71 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 33 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, shortlived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there.
Pàgina 9 - ART thou weary, art thou languid, Art thou sore distrest ? "Come to Me " — saith One — " and coming, Be at rest ! " Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide ? " In His Feet and Hands are Wound-prints. And His Side.
Pàgina 31 - THE world is very evil ; The times are waxing late : Be sober and keep vigil ; The Judge is at the gate : The Judge That comes in mercy, The Judge That comes with might, To terminate the evil, • To diadem the right.
Pàgina 11 - MOTHER dear, Jerusalem ! When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end? Thy joys when shall I see?
Pàgina 12 - JERUSALEM, my happy home, •*• * When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Pàgina 12 - If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay ? " Not till earth and not till heaven Pass away.
Pàgina 41 - With milk and honey blest ; Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not, OI know not, What social joys are there ; What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare.
Pàgina 44 - I seek not to deny My merit is destruction, A child of wrath am I : But yet with Faith I venture And Hope upon my way ; For those perennial guerdons I labour night and day.
Pàgina 37 - Mine eyes their vigils keep : For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. O one, O only Mansion, O Paradise of Joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no alloy. Beside thy living waters All plants are, great and small, — The cedar of the forest, The hyssop of the wall ; — With jaspers glow thy bulwarks, Thy streets with emeralds blaze, The sardius and the topaz Unite...
Pàgina 32 - Strive, man, to win that glory; Toil, man, to gain that light; Send hope before to grasp it, Till hope be lost in sight.

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