 | 1867 - 838 Seiten
...holy thought, And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die : And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'cr I rest, great God, let me Awake again at least with Thee. And thus assured, behold, I lie Securely,... | |
 | Thomas Thellusson Carter - 1868 - 302 Seiten
...holy thought ; And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; () make me try By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Wednesday. THE LORD knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations. 2 S. Peter ii. 9. God never... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 Seiten
...holy thought, And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death : O make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at least with thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; oh ! make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : 20 And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie 25... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 Seiten
...thought, And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; — Oh make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ! And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 Seiten
...holy thought ; And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; oh ! make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let mtAwake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 Seiten
...stately rhetorical prose, beseeches God to make his sleep a holy trance : '' Sleep is a death ;—O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die ! And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 Seiten
...of stately rhetorical prose, beseeches God to make his sleep a holy trance: " Sleep is a death ;—O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die ! And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Rochdale discourses - 1870 - 370 Seiten
...death-awakening joy By shewing what it is to dy ; And as gently lay my head On my grave as on my bed. How 'ere I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee : And thus assur'd, behold I ly, Securely, or to wake or dy. Those are my drowsy days in vain I do now wake to... | |
 | 1870 - 462 Seiten
...course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death; oh ! make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : 20 And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie 25... | |
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Sleep is a death, O make me try. By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. 
