Silex Scintillans, Etc: Sacred Poems and Pious EjaculationsG. Bell and sons, 1897 - 276 páginas |
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Página 127 - The fearful miser on a heap of rust Sate pining all his life there, did scarce trust His own hands with the dust, Yet would not place one piece above, but lives In fear of thieves.
Página 14 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Página 14 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Página 128 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Página 54 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Página 128 - O fools, said I, thus to prefer dark night Before true light! To live in grots and caves, and hate the day Because it shows the way; The way which from this dead and dark abode Leads up to God; A way where you might tread the sun, and be More bright than he! But as I did their madness so discuss, One whispered thus: This ring the Bridegroom did for none provide But for His bride.
Página 55 - But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some...
Página 13 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Página 13 - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Página 26 - Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.