 How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ! 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 shuts the eye of day...  The English Hymn Book - Page 622by Robert William Dale - 1879 - 1039 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." How mysterious to us are the dispensations of Providence : let us learn submission to its will! When... | |
 | 1877 - 588 pages
...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...the eye of day ; So dies a wave- along the shore." GS m Soniwts on tjje " He camo unto His own 1 md, and His own people received Him not." I. CHILL is... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 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...the eye of day : So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing. O Grave ! where is thy vict'ry... | |
 | 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...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fauu'd by some angel's purple wing; O Grave ! where is thy vict'ry... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 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...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fan'd by some angel's purple wing : O grave ! where is thy victory... | |
 | 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...gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along tin: shore. Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ; Where is, 0 grave,... | |
 | 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...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." Her remains were interred at Highgate on May 25th, and the beautiful service of the New Church was... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...as to realize the words of a hymn he had often repeated in his sickness : — " So fades a summer's cloud away ; So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er;...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." RS CAVE and SEVEE, Printers by Steam Power, Hunt's Bank, Manchester. THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY AND... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1822 - 516 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, 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 ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | 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... | |
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