 FOR thee, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep ; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest.  The Interpreter Hymn Book, Containing the Hymns Selected for Daily Singing ... - Page 37by Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...evermore ! " His yearning towards this heavenly home the poet thus tenderly expresses :*— " For thee, 0 dear, dear Country ! Mine eyes their vigils keep ;...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. 0 one, 0 onely mansion I 0 paradise of joy I Where tears are ever banished. And smiles have no alloy... | |
 | 1881 - 494 pages
...city!" No one answered ; at last Magdalene sang gently, as if heedless of the others, " ' For thee, 0 dear dear country. Mine eyes their vigils keep ; For...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest.' " " Don't leave off, Maida," said Frank, as she paused and stood with clasped hands and eyes, radiant... | |
 | 1851 - 636 pages
...Shall we behold for ever, And worship face to face. * * * To thee, O dear, dear country 1 Mine eyas their vigils keep ; For very love, beholding Thy happy...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. 344 O one, O oiiely 'mansion ! O paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...; and it is to the last sixty of these that the spirited lines below are meant to correspond. ' To thee, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, {/eholding(I) Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine... | |
 | George Cosby White - 1856 - 174 pages
...from GOD, having the glory of Goo : and her light was like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." 176. To thee, O dear, dear Country, Mine eyes their vigils keep: For very love, beholding Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, Thy happy name, they weep : The mention of thy... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...its metre. The following is a faint and feeble echo of a few lines of Bernard's long poem : — " To thee, O dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. O one ! 0 only mansion ! 0 Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And joys have no alloy ; Beside... | |
 | 1857 - 632 pages
...metre. The following is a faint and feeble echo of a few lines of Bernard's long poem : — " To thee, 0 dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils keep ;...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. 0 one 1 0 only mansion 1 0 Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And joys have no alloy... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...meter. The following is a faint and feeble echo of a few lines of Bernard's long poem: "To thec, 0 dear, dear country! Mine eyes their vigils keep ;...And medicine in sickness, And love and life and rest О one ! 0 only mansion! . 0 Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And joys have no alloy... | |
 | Hymnal - 1857 - 176 pages
...light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal."—Rev. xxi. 11. The mention of thy glory, Is unction to the breast,...medicine in sickness, . And love, and life, and rest. 2. 0 one and only mansion ! O Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no alloy... | |
 | Charles HESKETH - 1858 - 594 pages
...sweeter rest will be. after Trinity. 197 The holy Jerusalem. Heh. xi. 14. Bev. xxi, 10, 11. 1 To THEE, 0 dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils keep ;...medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. 2 O one, O only mansion ! O paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banish'd, And smiles have no alloy;... | |
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