 | American Seamen's Friend Society - Hymns - 1843 - 456 pages
...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 eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around,— A calm which liie nor death destroys... | |
 | George Rogers - Hymns, English - 1843 - 456 pages
...closing eyes ; How gently heaves the dying 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 Triumphant femiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some abgel's purple... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...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. MRS. BARBAULD. The soul on earth is an immortal guest Compell'd to starve... | |
 | Criticism - 1853 - 666 pages
...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 shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." America has produced three men of the first order of mind. The first,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Hymns, English - 1844 - 660 pages
...closing eye ! 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 eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate... | |
 | Baron Stow, Samuel Francis Smith - Baptists - 1844 - 732 pages
...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 eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; .... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...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, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
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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. 
