 | 1861 - 716 páginas
...hymn." The original has five stanzas, the improvement but three. Of the former the first stanza is : How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks...How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast! The " other form" reads : Sweet is the scene when Christians die ; When holy souls... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 132 páginas
...successive, and successive fall. CXLIII. 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 ! So fades a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | 1842 - 298 páginas
...Its glories shall restore ; And eyelids, that are sealed in death, Shall ope to close no more. 348 1 How blest the righteous when he dies! When sinks a...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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1843 - 860 páginas
...joyful day; Come death, and some celestial band, To bear my soul away. 624 LM Death of the Righteous. HOW blest the righteous when he dies! When sinks a...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! 2 So tades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of... | |
 | 1843 - 148 páginas
...Through all the earth abroad : Let every nation now behold Their Savior and their God. LM BARBACLD. 1 How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1843 - 938 páginas
...Prepare me, Lord, for thy right hand; Ml DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 437 624 LM Death of the Righteous. HOW blest the righteous when he dies! When sinks a...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So tades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1843 - 914 páginas
...Are we not tending upward too, As fast as time can move? -nus 623 1 624 LM Death of the Righteous. HOW blest the righteous when he dies! When sinks a...beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast1 2 So tades a summer cloud away, 'So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 406 páginas
...world, is beaming as a new star, with accumulated splendor, on the horizon of eternity. " How blessed the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate dwell ! How bright the unchanging... | |
 | American Seamen's Friend Society - 1843 - 456 páginas
...trace, Till with them, in the land of light, We dwell before thy face. 624 LM Death of the Righteous, 1 HOW blest the righteous when he dies,— When sinks...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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1843 - 802 páginas
...celestial band, To bear my soul away. 624 DRATH or THE RIGHTEOUS. LM HOW blest the righteous when he dies l When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye... | |
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How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the 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... 
