 | Isaac Watts - 1850 - 624 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast I 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... | |
 | New Jerusalem church. General conference - 1846 - 466 pages
...kind release, Leaning upon his Saviour's 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 no earthly care destroys : Nought... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 918 pages
...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 !" Youthful reader! do you know and love that Saviour, who was the object... | |
 | A. W. Mitchell - Sick - 1846 - 204 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 ;... | |
 | James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1846 - 538 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 Triumphant smiles the victor-brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1846 - 706 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 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate... | |
 | Baptist union - 1846 - 580 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... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 440 pages
...sweetly and without a struggle fell asleep in Jesus. So fades a summer cloud away — So ginks the gale when storms are o'er — So gently shuts the eye of day — So dies a wave along the shore. The old divines distinguished preparation for death as habitual and actual.... | |
 | Baron Stow, Samuel Francis Smith, Richard Fuller, Jeremiah Bell Jeter - Baptists - 1847 - 758 pages
...closing eyes! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! 2 So fades a summer clond 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; And... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...fell asleep, aged twenty-one years and three months. So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So fades a wave along the shore. Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit... | |
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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. 
