 | Alvin Simonds - 1887 - 102 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, And... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Education, Higher - 1871 - 550 pages
...beginning had ministered so lovingly to her wants. " So fades the 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." With her, as it had been with her husband, it was just such a death as... | |
 | 1887 - 858 pages
...to the end. Her death was simply "transition." ; ' 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." Central Neus York Cou/erenee 1888. 101 MRS. ANDRIA J. ALDRIDGE Was born... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...verse of one of her sweetest and best known hymns : " 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. Life's duty done — as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit... | |
 | Lewis Ward Mudge - Hymns, English - 1889 - 254 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... | |
 | Henry Martin Sanders, George Claude Lorimer - Baptists - 1889 - 472 pages
...closing eyes, 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. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; And... | |
 | Augusta Temple - Children's poetry - 1889 - 318 pages
...delight, — it ended with these lines added, — " 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." " And so will all our sorrows fade away on the shore of eternity with... | |
 | James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...we not behold oimilar scenes in nature? Yes, — " 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." So nearly perfect is the true Christian's death that while we mourn the... | |
 | James Nelson Burnes, Edward W. De Knight - United States - 1889 - 562 pages
...quietly and imperceptibly passed to his long repose. So fades a summer's 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. Gathered about the couch at his last moments were his agonized son, his... | |
 | Association of the Bar of the City of New York - 1890 - 50 pages
...whose beauty is not marred by their familiar use : " 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." And over this sleeping form, borne to its rest with all the honors a... | |
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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. 
