 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...original has five stanzas, the improvement but three. Of the former the first stanza is : How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast! The " other form" reads : Sweet is the scene when Christians die ; When holy souls retire to rest,... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...eternal home ; his fend furnishing a beautiful illustration of the well-known verse — " How blest the righteous, when he dies! "When sinks a weary soul...How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast!" His death was improved from the words, c< Blessed are the die which die in the... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1842 - 298 pages
...shall restore ; And eyelids, that are sealed in death, Shall ope to close no more. 348 1 How blest the righteous when he dies! When sinks a weary soul...reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys: Nothing disturbs that peace profound, Which his unfettered soul enjoys. 4 Life's duty done, as sinks... | |
 | Children's literature - 1843 - 396 pages
...decline was serene as a summer's evening, and noiseless as the dying whispers of the gentle gale. " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when...gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shoro." The skill of the physician was in vain ; death could not be stayed ; and in the season of joy... | |
 | Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Hymns, English - 1843 - 296 pages
...the righteous when they die, JL A When holy souls retire to rest ! How mildly beams the closing eye ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades...the eye of day : So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate dwell ! 8 How bright th' unchanging... | |
 | George Rogers - Hymns, English - 1843 - 456 pages
...When sinks a righteous soul to rest; i How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves the dying breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant femiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some abgel's purple wing; O grave where is thy victory... | |
 | Morning and evening service - 1843 - 82 pages
...righteous blessed in tomb. 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. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys j Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
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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. 
