 | George Keate - 1790
...of his life — and dearly did he love the Sabbath, — for he had written the beautiful words — " 0 Day most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud. The endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with His blood ; The couch of time ; care's... | |
 | 1853
...from earthly cares and amusements on the Sunday. They will be ready to exclaim with Herbert, — ' 0 Day most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, The week were dark but 1'or thy light.' But the Puritans have always enforced this religious privilege... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827
...without complaints or grief; Since, if my scent be good, I care not if It be as short as yours. SUNDAY. O DAY most calm, most bright! The fruit of this, the next world's bud; Th' indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood; The couch of time; care's... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 296 pages
...Thy thunders magnified; but to create Is greater, than created to destroy." THE SABBATH. HERE CRT. O DAY most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th' endorsement of supreme delight, Writ hy a friend, and with his blood; The couch of time, care's... | |
 | 1853
...have had little difference in this. The feeling of them all is well expressed by quaint old Herbert : "0 day most calm, most bright! The fruit of this, the next world's bud ; Th' endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time; care's... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833
...to the two eldest, and fifteen hundred to the youngest. LESSON ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH. Sunday. O day most calm, most bright! The fruit of this, the next world's bud! The endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood! The couch of time; care's... | |
 | 1834
...85— 88. The following hymn has been nobly paraphrased by a living poet, Bernard Barton. SUNDAY, "O day most calm, most bright! The fruit of this, the next world's bud; Th' endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time; care's... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835
...members suffer ill. They who lament one cross, Thou dying daily, praise thee to thy loss. SUNDAY. O DAY most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time, care's... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836
...members suffer ill. They who lament one cross, Thou dying daily, praise thee to thy loss. SUNDAY. O DAY most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time, care's... | |
 | 1836
...sorrow past, and pain : " Where shall we meet?" — God grant in heaven, Never to part again ! SUNDAY. O DAY most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, The endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time ; care's... | |
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The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light: Thy torch doth show the way. 
