 A better country, that is, an heavenly." TITOR 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,...  New Tunes to Hymns Ancient and Modern - Pàgina 27per Richard Owen - 1905 - 78 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1864 - 868 pàgines
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care, The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. " O one! O only mansion ! O paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And joys have no alloy." TR STEVENSON. tiarlow, 451 EASTEE AT OXFORD. IN a recent number... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...; 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... | |
 | Henry William Burrows - 1855 - 148 pàgines
...our King and Portion, In fulness of His grace, Shall we behold for ever, And worship face to face. To thee, O dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils...mansion ! O paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no alloy : With jaspers glow thy bulwarks, Thy streets with emeralds blaze... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pàgines
...which should at once dissipate all prejudice, fusing it into its own exquisite melody : — " To thce, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep...mansion, O Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished And joys have no alloy : Beside thy living waters All plants are, great and small— The cedar... | |
 | George Cosby White - 1856 - 174 pàgines
...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... | |
 | London St. Mary Magdalene, Munster sq - 1857 - 188 pàgines
...landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. N 122. To thee, O dear, dear Country, Mine eyes their vigils...mansion ! O Paradise of joy ! Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no alloy : Besides thy living waters All plants arc, great and small ; The... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pàgines
...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... | |
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