| Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...decree, And round it hath cast like a girdle, the sea. Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light ; It...plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, and not find Thee to fail ; Thy mercies... | |
| John William Colenso (bp. of Natal) - 1852 - 226 pages
...decree, And round it hath cast, Like a girdle, the sea. Thy bountiful caA What tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, It shines in the light ; It...plain, And sweetly distils In the dew and the rain. Frail children of dust, And feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, Nor find Thee to fail ; Thy Mercies,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1853 - 762 pages
...form, And dark is his path on the wings of 'the storm. 3 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light, It...plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. 4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail ; Thy mercies... | |
| Benjamin Samuel HOLLIS - 1854 - 584 pages
...decree, And round it hath cast like a mantle the sea. 4 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite ! It breathes in the air, it shines in the light ; It...nor find thee to fail ; Thy mercies how tender, how sure to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend! 6 O measureless might ! ineffable love... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Even wise men leave their better sense at home. To chide and wonder at them when returned. Coleridge. Frail children of dust, And feeble as frail, In Thee...tender, How firm to the end! Our Maker — Defender, Kedeemer, and Friend. O measureless might! Ineffable love! While angels delight To hymn Thee above,... | |
| Thomas Baker Morrell - Bible - 1854 - 166 pages
...thunder-clouds form, And dark is His path On the wings of the storm. Thy bountiful care What tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, It shines in the light ; It...plain, And sweetly distils In the dew and the rain. Frail children of dust, And feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, Nor find Thee to fail ; Thy mercies... | |
| James Slade - 1854 - 222 pages
...chariot are ; Abroad Thou art coming On wings of the air. Thy bountiful care, What tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, It shines in the light : It streams from the mountains, Descends to the plain ; And flows in the^ fountains, In dew and in rain. Thus, Lord, my... | |
| Henry William Burrows - 1855 - 148 pages
...And round it hath cast, Like a mantle, the sea. PART II. Thy bountiful care, What tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, It shines in the light, It...plain, And sweetly distils In the dew and the rain. Frail children of dust, And feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, Nor find Thee to fail : Thy mercies... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Congregational churches - 1855 - 518 pages
...form, And dark is His path on tho wings of tho storm. 3. Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite 1 It breathes in the air, it shines in the light, It...from the hills, it descends to the plain, And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 4. Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In Thee do wo trust,... | |
| John Thomas PELHAM (Hon.) - 1855 - 244 pages
...Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, — it shines in the : light; In streams from the hills it descends to the plain ; And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. 3 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail ; Thy mercies... | |
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