 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...Heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high ; Shall we to man benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Hymns, English - 1844 - 606 pages
...o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? — In vain, with larish kindness, The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high — Shall we to man benighted The lamp of... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1844 - 576 pages
...Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God we strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high — Shall we to men benighted, The lamp... | |
 | Cheshire Pastoral Association (Cheshire, Conn.) - Hymns, English - 1845 - 498 pages
...spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - Hymns, English - 1845 - 406 pages
...spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's * isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted "With wisdom from on high, Can we to man benighted The lamp of life... | |
 | Vedanta - 1928 - 372 pages
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Where every prospect pleases And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows downs to wood and stone." I have been to "Ceylon's isle," and felt the softness of its spicy breezes,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1823 - 420 pages
...o'er Ceylon's isle, Tho' every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindnen The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benightea The lamp of life... | |
 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith - Religion - 1991 - 360 pages
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. The hymn had extremely wide use in the English-speaking Protestant church for a time. Later, however,... | |
 | Glenn C. Wilcox - Music - 1993 - 366 pages
...every prospect please*, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness. The gifts of God ore strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we, to men benighted, The lamp... | |
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What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 
