 | Isaac Watts - Hymns - 1821 - 464 pages
...earth we came, And crept to life at first ; We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. 3 Tis God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Thomas Towne - 1821 - 232 pages
...cordially I thank you; but I feel alarmed. Lent me ! — Lent ! — They are so ; and only lent ! ! " The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now To be repaid anon." And the idolatry of which I am daily guilty, deserves... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Bible - 1823 - 376 pages
...we came, And rose to life at first, We. to the earth shall soon descend, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. 3 'Tis God who lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1824 - 636 pages
...we came, • And crept to life at first, We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short farours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. 3 'Tis GOD that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Brattle Square Church - 1825 - 216 pages
...earth we came, And rose to life at first, We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. • 3 'Tis God who lifts our comforts high, Or sinks... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1825 - 232 pages
...earth we came. And crept to life at first, We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. 3 "Tis God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Hymns, English - 1827 - 204 pages
...earth we came, And crept to life at first, We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now To be repaid anon. 3 'Tis God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1828 - 594 pages
...earth we came, And crept to life at first, We to the earth return again, And mingle with our dust. 2 The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anon. 3 'Tis GOD who lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...bow easily can we send a worm to cut off the fairest ! let us constantly cherish tbe feeling that, The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own. Are bat short faroars borrow'd now, To he repaid anon. This alone will excite gratitude for the mercies... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1829 - 742 pages
...granted to the praj ers TOI» II. M of the prophet. But this good woman was called t pro?e that, — The dear delights we here enjoy, And fondly call our own, Are but short favours borrow'd now, To be repaid anou. When the child was grown to an interesting he died ;... | |
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Tis God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them in the grave ; He gives, and, blessed be his name ! He takes but what he gave. 
