 | Henry Tudor - Families - 1848 - 468 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. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (U.S.) - Bible - 1848 - 870 pages
...closing eyes, low gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 5o 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. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm, which life, nor death, destroys; Nothing... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - Hymns, English - 1848 - 702 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... | |
 | John Spencer Curwen, Mrs. T. L. Banks - Music - 1882 - 346 pages
...last breath softly and sweetly as a little child. 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. Something may be added to this sketch, which is necessarily a short one.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...closing eyes! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale U / dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing;... | |
 | Elizabeth Prentiss, George Lewis Prentiss - Authors, American - 1882 - 618 pages
...naturally into the mould of those familiar lines : " 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." But this scene is adapted also to kindle aspiration in our hearts —... | |
 | 1883 - 110 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. A holy quiet reigns around— A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | William Frith - Older people - 1883 - 140 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. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys, Nothing... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1883 - 452 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 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, 515, SI?BURIAL OF A SAINT. /. Watts.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...some brighter clime Bid me " Good morning." Life. 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. The Death of the rirtuoui. 1 Who against hope believed in hope. — Romani... | |
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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. 
