 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1842 - 628 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 With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men benighted The lamp of... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...the spicy bree/.ts 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...strown, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood aud stone. Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to man benighted The... | |
 | 1842 - 406 pages
...passed through some very abundant crops of rice ; I thought of Heber's hymn, "In vain, with lavished kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone." We had a large congregation, hut some brahmins, connected with a temple near which we were standing,... | |
 | 1842 - 418 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 strown, The heathen, in their blindness, Bow down to wood and stone." The frontispiece represents a native priest of Kandy.... | |
 | Edward Tottenham - Hymns, English - 1843 - 282 pages
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though ev'ry 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 With wisdom from on high ; Shall we to men benighted The lamp of... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Bible - 1843 - 938 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. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we, to jjaen benighted, The lamp... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Bible - 1847 - 670 pages
...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. 8 Shall we, whose souls are lighted ^ With wisdom from on high, — Shall we, to men benighted, The... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1843 - 270 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." It is true that the people around me were not avowed heathen, and did not literally bow down before... | |
 | Joshua Vaughan Himes - Adventists - 1843 - 340 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 man benighted The lamp of... | |
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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. 
