| Herbert Mends - 1801 - 432 pages
...my soul, and stretch thy wings, k. Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, T'wards heaven thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars...earth remove : Rise, my soul, and haste away, To seats prepar'd above.. IT. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| George Richards - 1806 - 394 pages
...soul, and stretch thy wings, •*•*- Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars...earth remove: Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course: Fire ascending seeks the sun,... | |
| George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, Tow'rds heav'n, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay,...remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away . To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...Time shall soon this earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire...ascending seeks the sun, ^ Both speed them to their source : So a soul, that's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face, Upward tends to his abode, To rest... | |
| E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 pages
..."DISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars...earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...soul, and stretch thv win»s •M* Thy better portion trace; *"' Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars...earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
| Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace ; Rise from transitory things, Tow'rds heav'n, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars decay,...earth remove ; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the sun,... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pages
...and stretch thy wings, JLV Thy better portion trace ; ' Rise from transitory things, Tow'rd heav'n, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars decay —...earth remove ; Rise my soul, and haste away To seats prepar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course : Fires ascending seek the... | |
| 1846 - 612 pages
...Henry. Then the poet, father, was more of a philosopher than I supposed, when he wrote — " Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire,...seeks the Sun — Both speed them to their source." I have often questioned the correctness of this verse, as I never before realized the fact that the... | |
| William Parkinson - 1817 - 570 pages
...ISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace 5 Rise from transitory things Tow'rd heaven, thy native place : Sun, and moon, and stars...earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prcpar'd above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire ascending seeks the... | |
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