 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1843 - 802 pages
...sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when...the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | Association of the Bar of the City of New York - 1890 - 50 pages
...wealth of imagery of the English poetess in lines whose beauty is not marred by their familiar use : " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore." And over this sleeping form, borne to its rest with all the honors a nation pays to those who have... | |
 | William F. Sudds - 1890 - 178 pages
...closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! AMEN. >, | , i , P> JUE2 So fades a summer-cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So...the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy qniet reigns around, — A calm which life nor death destroys ; And naught disturbs that peace... | |
 | Silas Kitto Hocking - 1890 - 318 pages
...at Benny, she was never seen to open her eyes again, but gradually sank to rest. 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. Two days after, Joe and Benny went together to the Infirmary. But they were too late : the pure spirit... | |
 | James Ford - 1890 - 318 pages
...Christians die, When holv souls retire to rest; How mildlv beams the closing eye; How gentlv heave< the expiring breast. So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er. So gentlv shuts the eve of day; So dies the wave along the shore. Christ was her example; His word her... | |
 | 1891 - 348 pages
...'flu Dtath qftkr Rigkttmu. NUM. xxiii. 10. How blest the righteous, when he dies, When sinks a weary soul to rest: How mildly beam the closing eyes, How...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.... | |
 | 1891 - 448 pages
...dies ! When sinks a righteous soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away, So...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ; — Where is, O grave ! thy... | |
 | Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1891 - 434 pages
...sinks a weary 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,...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 profound... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson, Edward Judson - 1892 - 548 pages
...as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there ! 2 So fades a summer- cloud away ; So sinks the gale...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... | |
 | General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1893 - 554 pages
...yields his soul to rest: Who gains from earth the kind release, Leaning upon his Savior's breast. 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when...the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm no earthly care destroys: Nought can disturb that peace profound,... | |
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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. 
