 | Reformed Church in America - Hymns - 1831 - 182 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, when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eve of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, 4 Farewell, conflicting hopes,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow. Fanned by some angel's purple wing; — Where is, O Grave! thy victory... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades the summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms...; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave upon the shore. Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven... | |
 | 1832 - 562 pages
...the closing eyes! How gently heaves th* expiring breast ! So fades the summer cloud away ; So ginks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave upon the shore. Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies ; While heaven... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...heaves the' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer-cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'e% So gently 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 ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1833 - 346 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 when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fann'd by some guardian angel's wing: O grave! where is thy... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Families - 1833 - 358 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 when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fann'd by some guardian angel's wing: O grave! where is thy... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Bible - 1833 - 684 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 when...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 ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | Gardner BALDWIN - 1833 - 248 pages
...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, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, 4 Farewell ! conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate... | |
 | Bible - 1833 - 576 pages
...fight, Our courage faints away. 2 How shall we meet this potent foe. Whose frown our souls alarms 1 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; bo gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore ; 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's... | |
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So fades a summer cloud a-way, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 
