Th' 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. Littell's Living Age - Page 4051893Full view - About this book
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...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 calm... | |
| 1853 - 678 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...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 - 334 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 - 1142 pages
...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 - 274 pages
...crowns 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 balm... | |
| 1834 - 410 pages
...77, 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 - 402 pages
...thy 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...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. The other days and thou Make... | |
| William Allen - 1835 - 812 pages
...Nazareth. Sunday. 1 O, DAY, most calm, and pure, and bright! The fruit of this, the next world's hud ; Th' indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; 2 The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark but for thy light ; Thy torch doth... | |
| 1836 - 758 pages
...his instruments ; and, having tuned it, played uud sung one of bis hymns :— " Oh day most calm and bright ! The fruit of this, — the next world's bud...delight, Writ by a friend, — and with his blood ; The week were dark, but for thy light !" He was told on his death-bed of his charities, and of his rebuilding... | |
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