 | Charles James Fox Binney - Reference - 1883 - 580 pages
...ripple upon the surface of the placid waters. " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the ff.'ile when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." " Oh, many a spirit walks the world unheeded, That, when its vail of... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...closing eyes. How gently heaves th' expiring breast I 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. Anna L, Barbauld* TO THE LARK. MOUNT, child of morning, mount and sing,... | |
 | Michigan - 1884 - 590 pages
...was difficult to note the precise time of his departure. So fades a summer cloud So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. THE FUNERAL. Seldom has a bright, beautiful day in Grand Haven been so... | |
 | Lucy Taylor - Christian life - 1884 - 168 pages
...doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.' ' So fadea 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.' And when the happy little party were settled in their country home, it... | |
 | Baptists - 1885 - 236 pages
...closing eyes ; How gently heaves the expiring breast I So fades a summer-cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies the wave along the shore. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 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 Christian, at his death, should not be like the child... | |
 | Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Zachary Eddy, Lewis Ward Mudge - Gospel music - 1886 - 462 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; And... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - Hymns, English - 1886 - 576 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 3 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. 4 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...closing eyes, W" 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. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing;... | |
 | John Frost - Death - 1887 - 270 pages
...closing eye 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 the wave upon the shore.' " CHAPTER XXIV. SPEECHES IN CONGRESS — FUNERAL HONORS — BURIAL AT... | |
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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. 
