 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...distance from her residence, and over her grave was inscribed some lines from one of her own dirges: CALM on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit ! rest thee now ! Even while with us thy footsteps trode, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 pages
...there. It is but lifeless, perishable flesh, That moulders in the grave. [See the whole of the passage.] Calm on the bosom of thy God Fair spirit, rest thee now ! E'en while with us thy footsteps trod His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow bed beneath, Soul... | |
 | 1856 - 414 pages
...and distressing sickness without a murmur, and with an undying faith left us for her home above. " Calm on the bosom of thy God Fair spirit rest thee now ! £ven while with us thy footsteps irode, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath,... | |
 | Willoughby William T. Balfour - 1856 - 366 pages
...be a glorious guest ; Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest ! HYMN 194. CALM, on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now ; E'en while with ours, thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust, to its narrow house beneath... | |
 | 1856 - 598 pages
...the following lines lately from a plain upright stone in the churchyard of St. Thomas, at Ryde : " Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair Spirit ! rest thee now ; E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1857 - 394 pages
...the grave—who feel that a light is taken from their path which nothing earthly can restore—can yet thankfully and submissively acknowledge that "...! rest thee now ! Ev'n while with us thy footsteps trode, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pages
...the blissful ehore,' We gently closed his eyes, and wished for ourselves a similar departure I " " Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair Spirit, rest thee now : EVn while with ours thy footsteps trod, Hit seal was on thy brow. Dust — to its narrow house beneath : Soul— to... | |
 | John Hamilton THOM - 1858 - 662 pages
...to Thee : Where Thou art known, — we ask not where, — But there 't is Heaven to be. 514. c. M. 1 Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now ! E'en while with us thy footstep trod, His seal was on thy brow, 2 Dust, to its narrow house beneath... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1859 - 378 pages
...and slept the deep, calm, dreamless sleep of tired children. CHAPTER XIV. TirE SILVER OORD BROKEN. ' Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now I E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow." — MBS. HBMAXB. ^^HEY did not... | |
 | M. G. de Wczele (Count.) - 1859 - 246 pages
...garden-gate. Miss J., pressing my hand, pronounced the single word, '• Remember." CHAPTER XIV. " Calm, on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now ! E'en while with us thy footsteps trod His seal was on thy brow." MBS. HKMANS. KNOW, dear friend,... | |
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His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die. 
