The Sabbath: A Poem : to which are Now Added, Sabbath WalksRonalds and Loudon, 1805 - 168 pages |
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... prayer , Forgive our debts , as we forgive our debtors : From unforgiving lips most impious prayer ! O happier far the victim , than the hand That deals the legal stab ! The injur'd man Enjoys internal , settled calm ; to him The ...
... prayer , Forgive our debts , as we forgive our debtors : From unforgiving lips most impious prayer ! O happier far the victim , than the hand That deals the legal stab ! The injur'd man Enjoys internal , settled calm ; to him The ...
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... prayer ; But , far apart , assembled in the depth Of solitudes , perhaps a little group Of aged men , and orphan boys , and maids Bereft , list to the breathings of the holy man Who spurns an oath of fealty to the power Of rulers chosen ...
... prayer ; But , far apart , assembled in the depth Of solitudes , perhaps a little group Of aged men , and orphan boys , and maids Bereft , list to the breathings of the holy man Who spurns an oath of fealty to the power Of rulers chosen ...
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... little field , To commune with his God in secret prayer , — To bless the Lord , that in his downward years His children are about him : sweet meantime , The thrush that sings upon the aged thorn , Brings 56 L. 711 . THE SABBATH .
... little field , To commune with his God in secret prayer , — To bless the Lord , that in his downward years His children are about him : sweet meantime , The thrush that sings upon the aged thorn , Brings 56 L. 711 . THE SABBATH .
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... prayer , and wander in the fields Alone ! What tho ' the op'ning spring be chill ! What tho ' the lark , check'd in his airy path , Eke out his song , perch'd on the fallow clod , That still o'ertops the blade ! What tho ' no branch ...
... prayer , and wander in the fields Alone ! What tho ' the op'ning spring be chill ! What tho ' the lark , check'd in his airy path , Eke out his song , perch'd on the fallow clod , That still o'ertops the blade ! What tho ' no branch ...
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... prayer . THE flickering fall is o'er : the clouds disperse , And shew the sun , hung o'er the welkin's verge , Shooting a bright but ineffectual beam On all the sparkling waste . Now is the time To visit nature in her grand attire . Tho ...
... prayer . THE flickering fall is o'er : the clouds disperse , And shew the sun , hung o'er the welkin's verge , Shooting a bright but ineffectual beam On all the sparkling waste . Now is the time To visit nature in her grand attire . Tho ...
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Page 93 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 59 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Page 162 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Page 92 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm : therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 28 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 96 - Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Page 29 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 95 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Page 94 - And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Page 100 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight.