 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1847 - 670 pages
...closing eyes! p> How gently heaves th' expiring breast! mp 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks a gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; p So dies a wave along the shore. mp 8 A holy quiet reigns around, — A calm which life nor death... | |
 | John Harris - 1844 - 336 pages
...So," in the language of a hymn which she was admiring the Lord's-day evening before — " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." Numerous and affecting are the lessons which this Divine dispensation conveys. But it is not for the... | |
 | Baron Stow, Samuel Francis Smith - 1844 - 732 pages
...soul to rest! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; . And nought disturbs that peace... | |
 | Henry Martin Sanders, George Claude Lorimer - 1889 - 472 pages
...weary soul to rest : How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale, when storms...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; And naught disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | Lewis Ward Mudge - 1889 - 254 pages
...rest: VESPER. 8.7. How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. 2 So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale, when storms...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; And naught disturbs that peace... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 pages
...portrayed is absolutely inviting. And do we not behold oimilar scenes in nature? Yes, — " So fades a summer cloud away: So sinks the gale when storms...the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore." So nearly perfect is the true Christian's death that while we mourn the departure of the loved one,... | |
 | Augusta Temple - 1889 - 318 pages
...by the sofa and read a story, to Elva's delight, — it ended with these lines added, — " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." " And so will all our sorrows fade away on the shore of eternity with that last wave from this troubled... | |
 | Edward W. De Knight - 1889 - 582 pages
...come — gently — and he quietly and imperceptibly passed to his long repose. So fades a summer's cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Gathered about the couch at his last moments were his agonized son, his bodyservant, his secretary,... | |
 | 1889 - 332 pages
...toil and pain, The spirit leaves the expiring breast. With Christ forever-more to reign. " So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; " So sped her soul, at close of day, To loved ones on the other shore. And when we laid her form away, No... | |
 | Reformed Church in the United States - 1890 - 398 pages
...-*>- -*>- -19- -m- ii 1 1 il ~f 1 •— sd— IJII j II How gen-tly heaves th'ex-plr - Ing 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; And naught disturbs that peace... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 
