| Simon Coleman, John Elsner - 2003 - 178 Seiten
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone! (English Hymnal 1933: 709 (no. 547)) 110 Written in 1817 by Reginald Heber (1783-1826), a Shropshire... | |
| Andrew N. Porter - 2003 - 280 Seiten
...Heber's (1783-1826l "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" included the verse: Can we, whose souls are lighied With wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Salvation! O salvation! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learnt Messiah's name. But a... | |
| Karl Kroeger, Marie Kroeger - 2004 - 274 Seiten
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile, In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3. Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we, to men benighted, The lamp of... | |
| Richard J. Mouw - 2004 - 312 Seiten
...the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Tho' every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life... | |
| William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 Seiten
...call will prove burdensome. They will not show gratitude, and many will persist in their wickedness: In vain, with lavish kindness, the gifts of God are...heathen in his blindness, bows down to wood and stone. Yet we, the chosen and favored ones, must persist: Shall we, whose souls are lighted by wisdom from... | |
| Scott Zesch - 2004 - 383 Seiten
...They call us to delivet Theit land ftom eeeot s thain. Can we. whose soub ate lighted With wisdom ftom on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Louis Jacob Kotn. Adolph Kotn's stepfathet, was a smalL gentle pattiatch, but he ensuted thac his childten... | |
| Robert Brown - 2005 - 401 Seiten
...the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile? In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?... | |
| William Petersen, Ardythe Petersen - 2015 - 697 Seiten
...the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile? In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are...heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?... | |
| John L. Bell - 2007 - 148 Seiten
...the spicy breezes blow soft o 'er Ceylon s isle, though every prospect pleases and man alone is vile; in vain with lavish kindness, the gifts of God are...strown, the heathen in his blindness bows down to wood or stone. or - to give a more balanced view If you cannot cross the ocean and the heathen lands explore,... | |
| Steven Heighton - 2006 - 420 Seiten
...buttermilkyellow, so the seamed and buckled pack ice spanning southward to infinity is steeped in rich new hues. Can we whose souls are lighted . . . with wisdom from on high . . . Can we to those benighted, the lamp of life deny? The light saturating the ice-plains glitters on the turrets... | |
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