| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...without one spoken word, or one outward gesture. The poet Montgomery beautifully expresses this : — " Prayer, is the heaving of a sigh; The falling of a...glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. " Prayer, is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayers are the highest strain that reach... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pages
...Utter'd or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; • The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Pr?y'r is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Pray'r the sublimest strams that... | |
| 1819 - 788 pages
...Utter'd, orunexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital brea'th, That infant... | |
| 1819 - 594 pages
...Utter'd, or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The... | |
| 1819 - 774 pages
...Uiter'd, or unexprcss'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach... | |
| 1819 - 576 pages
...The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The failing of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye. When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strain« that reach... | |
| 610 pages
...or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast.' " Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye. When none bat God is near. " Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the snblimest... | |
| Charles Burton - 1820 - 490 pages
...Utter'd, or unexprest; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray 'r is the burjjbit of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but GOD is near. 3 Pray'r is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Pray'r, the sublimes! strains that... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 pages
...Utter'd or unexprest ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Praver the sublimest strains that reach... | |
| Charles Sleech Hawtrey - 1822 - 478 pages
...Utter'd, or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Pray'r is the simplest form of speech, 1 hat infant lips can try ; Pray'r, the sublimcst strains that... | |
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