 | Robert Pollok Kerr - Hymns, English - 1893 - 526 pages
...Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending. The tearless life, is there ; Oh ! happy retribution! Short toil, eternal rest; For mortals and for sinners, A mansion with the blest. 2 And there is David's fountain, And life in fullest glow ; And there the life is golden, And milk... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - Baptists - 1893 - 598 pages
...Brief sorrow, sort-lived care ; The life, that knowus no ending, The tearless life, is there : Oh, happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals, and for sinners, A mansion with the blest ! 2 And there is David's fountain, And lite in fullest glow; And there the light is golden, And milk... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1895 - 144 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest; For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle — But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | Charles Rockwell Tenney - Hymns, English - 1895 - 468 pages
...and for Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there I O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ! There grief is turned to pleasure, Such pleasure as, below, No human voice can utter, No human heart... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1895 - 492 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. P. 390. ' Whose names are in the book of life.' There is a book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Christian poetry - 1895 - 422 pages
...tearless life, is there. 1 Briefly we tarry here, briefly are harried here, Here is brief sorrow. 0 happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ! There grief is turned to pleasure ; Such pleasure, as below No human voice can utter, No human heart... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Christian poetry - 1895 - 418 pages
...there. 1 Briefly we tarry here, briefly are harried here, Here is brief sorrow. O happy retribution I Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ! There grief is turned to pleasure ; Such pleasure, as below No human voice can utter, No human heart... | |
 | William Chatterton Coupland - Religious literature - 1895 - 746 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; Thr life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution! Short toil, eternal rest; For mortals and for sinners That we should look, poor wand'rcrs, To have our home on high! That worms should seek for dwellings... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - Hymns, English - 1896 - 536 pages
...portion, — Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest : For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | Hymns - 1896 - 372 pages
...short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution 1 Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest The morning shall awaken, The shadows shall decay, And each true-hearted servant Shall shine as doth... | |
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BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. 
