 | 1816 - 828 pages
...Happy are those who die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours — and their works follow them. " 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." How mysterious to us are the dispensations of Providence... | |
 | 1810 - 420 pages
...RIGHTEOUS. From the " Leisure Hour Improved." Sweet is '.he scene when virtue dies; When' links a righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves th' expiring breast So fides a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er , So gently shuts the eye of... | |
 | 1877 - 588 pages
...Monday, the 6th of August, 1877, in the 81st year of his age. " How bleat the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ; How gently heaves the expiring breast. " So fades a summer oloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently... | |
 | 1811 - 462 pages
...righteous soul to rest ; How mildly beam the closing eye* ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! 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 brow, Fauu'd by some angel's... | |
 | Leisure hour, Robert Barnard - 1811 - 218 pages
...to live ! B. The Death of the Righteous. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a 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 storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...destroy'd. X THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. SWEET is the scene when Virtue dies, When sinks a 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 storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of... | |
 | 1812 - 356 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 storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fan'd by some angel's... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...into death as unfearingly as a child seeks repose on its pillow — the day's fatigues all done. " 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 tin: shore. Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...by steady reliance on the Saviour and His kingdom, until gradually the motion ceased. " So fades the 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." Her remains were interred at Highgate on May 25th, and... | |
 | 1817 - 710 pages
.../ighteous soul to resi: How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades a Summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the closing day, So dies the ware along the shore. Each duty done — as sinks the clay, Light, from its... | |
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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. 
