...gone: like an imprisoned bird, it longs to take its flight O that I had the wings of a dove, I should flee away to the realms of bliss, and be at rest for ever. I long to be absent from the body and present with the Lord." At another time he said, "O what a day...

...and am vexed. My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Then I said, O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest — Ps. Iv. 1, 2, 4, 6. 27 HEARKEN UNTO THIS, O MAN. — Kent. JJEARKEN unto this, O...

...gone: like an imprisoned bird, it longs to take its flight. O that I had the wings of a dove, I should flee away to the realms of bliss, and be at rest for ever. I long to be absent from the body and present with the Lord." At another time he said, " O what a day...

...am vexed. My heart is disquieted within me ; and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Then I said, O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away and be at rest. 46. PSALM lv. Hear my prayer, O God, incline thine ear, Thyself from my petition do...

...sustaining power still and continuously experienced ; growing faith, growing hope, growing charity : — "0 that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest !" Add to the latter, a knowledge of love despised,chastenings disregarded, numberless...

...would be my special needs when he set down that exquisite anthem which contains the soprano solo : " O that I had wings like a dove ; then would I flee away and be at rest." Surely that fair-haired boy, the first treble (whom, by the way, I know to be one...

...Vault of Heaven. Oh, cries the Slave, that I were like you ! Oh, for the freedom of the skies. Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest. Now, my dear young friends, are you getting a glimpse of the meaning of my Text ? Do...

...am vexed. My heart is disquieted within me ; and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Then I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove ; then would I flee away and be at rest. 68. PRAISE the Lord, 0 Jerusalem ; praise thy God, 0 Zion. For He bath made fast the...

...it were into a region of boundless freedom and perfect peace, while he said again with David, ' Oh that I had wings like a dove ; then would I flee away and be at rest !' and so have found, in the contemplation of the wide ocean, a substitute at least...

...thing under God depends. Man in middle life, to whom life is hard and dry, whose cry is sometimes, " 0 that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away, and be at rest," — I doubt very seriously whether fleeing would do it. When Bierstadt wanted to get...