 | George Rogers - Hymns, English - 1843 - 462 pages
...a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves the dying breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ; O grave where is thy victory... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...sinks a weary 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...the eye of day, — So dies a wave along the shore. MRS. BARBAULD. The soul on earth is an immortal guest Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast : A spark... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | American Seamen's Friend Society - Hymns - 1843 - 456 pages
...How mildly beam the closing eyes'. How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around,— A calm which liie nor death destroys ; Nothing disturbs thut peace... | |
 | Criticism - 1853 - 666 pages
...— death, life ! how curious it is." And then the broad chest sank. His spirit was with his God. " So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." America has produced three men of the first order of mind. The first, on account of his public services,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Isaac Watts - Bible - 1844 - 754 pages
...holy souls retire to rest ! How mildly beams the closing eye ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate dwell ; How bright th' unchanging... | |
 | Baron Stow, Samuel Francis Smith - Baptists - 1844 - 732 pages
...sinks a weary soul to rest! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; . And nought disturbs that peace... | |
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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. 
