 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1837 - 668 pages
...and here his voice failed, he closed his eyes, and in a few mo ments he breathed his last. How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! CAPTIVITY OF THE REV. GEORGE TAYLOR. An Account of the Captivity of the Rev. George Taylor, a Wesleyan... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1822 - 516 pages
...21. Rom. xii. 5. 1 Cor. vi. 17. 1 Cor. xii. 12,27. A HYMN. THE RIGHTEOUS BLESSED IN DEATH. How blest the righteous when he dies ! — When sinks a weary...How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er, So gently... | |
 | Selection - Hymns, English - 1822 - 276 pages
...righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast 1 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's browv Fanned by some angel's gentle wing : Oh Grave ! where is thy victory... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...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...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing: O grave! where is thy vict'ry... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Bible - 1823 - 376 pages
...rose. HYMN CCXCV. LM The same subject. 1 Sweet is the scene when virtue dies, When sinks a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes, How...are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies the wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's heavenly wing... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...How miliily 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...reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound, Which his unfetter' d soul enjoys. 4 Farewell, conflicting... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 440 pages
...righteous soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ; — Where is, O Grave ! thy... | |
 | 1825 - 260 pages
...1 would die, Like them I now must live. HYMN 132. (LM) The righteous blessed in death. 1 How blest the righteous when he dies! — When sinks a weary...'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... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...How mildly beam the closing eyesl How gently heaves tli' expiring breast 1 So fades a summer-cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. * Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wiug : O Grave, where is thy vict'ry... | |
 | James Montgomery - Christian poetry, English - 1826 - 464 pages
...Eternal joys ; or, losing those, Interminable wo ! 297The righteous blessed in death. \ How bless'd the righteous when he dies ! — When sinks a weary...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... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 
