Franklin Square Song Collection: Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes, Nursery and Fireside, Volume 7Harper, 1891 - Hymns, English |
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Aberdovey ad lib Allegretto Andante beauty birds bless boatie breeze bright bring called choir chord clef County Guy cres dear Diatonic Scale dream earth ELIZA COOK ev'ry eyes F. E. WEATHERLY fair Father Finderne flat flowers FRANZ ABT glad half-step happy Hark harp haste hear heard heart Heaven HENRY SMART Hurdy-gur-dy hymn instrument ISAAC WATTS key-note King la la la light Lowell Mason Mary melody merrily merry Minor Scale Moderato morning ne'er never night notes o'er octave OLIVER SHAW piano pitch poco praise rall rest Robin sang scale semi-tones shine sing smile song sorrow soul sound star sung sweet teacher tears tempo thee There's thine thou thro tone tree tune Ul-li violin voice waves weep wild winds words नै
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Page 76 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 133 - Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.
Page 129 - He always wins who sides with God, To him no chance is lost : God's will is sweetest to him when It triumphs at his cost.
Page 12 - The child lay panting on her pillows as one exhausted, — the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Ah, what said those eyes that spoke so much of heaven? Earth was past, and earthly pain ; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. They pressed around her, in breathless stillness. " Eva !
Page 133 - So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 90 - This, too, was a deep satisfaction; although when they had laden themselves with sweets they flew away to some unknown hive, which would give back nothing in requital of what my garden had contributed. But I was glad thus to fling a benefaction upon the passing breeze with the certainty that somebody must profit by it, and that there would be a little more honey in the world to allay the sourness and bitterness which mankind is always complaining of. Yes, indeed ; my life was the sweeter for that...
Page 5 - I can speak feelingly, experimentally, on this point; and I stand before you seasonably to-day, as alive from the dead, if I may hope to impress it upon you, and induce you to prepare for that solemn hour which must come to all, by a timely acquaintance with,, appreciation of, and a dependence on the death of Christ.
Page 131 - cross the plains He eyes his home, though distant still. Thus when the Christian pilgrim views By faith his mansion in the skies, The sight his fainting strength renews, And wings his speed to reach the prize.
Page 123 - Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell's dark door we lay; — But we arise by grace divine, To see a heavenly day. 3 Salvation! — let the echo fly The spacious earth around ; While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
Page 12 - gave one sigh, and passed from death unto life ! Farewell, beloved child ! the bright, eternal doors have closed after thee ; we shall see thy sweet face no more. Oh, woe for them who watched thy entrance into heaven, when they shall wake and find only the cold gray sky of daily life, and thou gone forever ! CHAPTER XXVII " THIS IS THE LAST OF EARTH