 When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his...  Poems - Page 202by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, "Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings : Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures were supplied. Thus occupied with thoughts of God, reading occasionally, or more frequently... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pages
...those pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied." There are indeed, few examples, in modern days, of such unreserved and single-hearted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicy... | |
 | Joshua Noble Danforth - 1837 - 334 pages
...where those pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'enasif an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied." " I love prayer," said one who practised it much. " It is that which buckles... | |
 | 1839 - 374 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us — meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied," On returning home, the subject of our sketch found very few persons in the... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 pages
...those pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ! Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.'" From this time to the summer of 1826, with the exception of a month's confinement... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis even as if an Angel shook his wings : Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicey... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...these pure waters rise, 436 And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. 440 So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The Sun matures on India's... | |
 | Poetry - 1842 - 96 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide ; That tells us whence his treasures are supplied : Has dropp'd her anchor, and her canvas furl'd, In some safe haven of our western... | |
 | 1843 - 606 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us, meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings: Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied." • So was it with thee, poor wanderer ! Such was the fragrance of those happy... | |
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