 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.  Social evils, and their remedy - Seite 88von Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 466 Seiten
...whether any stranger listens to the strain." Edin. Rev. No. LI. p. 198. Thus in one of Cowper's hymns : The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that worship Thee. ! Thee, if Thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what joy,... | |
 | 1821 - 488 Seiten
...whether any stranger listens to the strain." Edin. Rev. No. LI. p. 198. Thus in one of Cowper's hymns : The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that worship Thee. Thee, if Thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what joy,... | |
 | 1821 - 614 Seiten
...they seek or wish. How different the real Christian ! He can address his .heavenly Father, and say The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem, by thy sweet bounty, made For those that follow Thee. COWPEB. Mortimer. Indispensable as Religion is to the well-being of «very society,... | |
 | 1821 - 740 Seiten
...calling him at the eleventh hour, and he can say, while thus employed in worshipping his God — , . "The calm retreat — the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet boiimy made For those who follow Thee." I was present when he united with the church. The air of deep... | |
 | Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1821 - 316 Seiten
...where sin is waging still, Its most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy presence cheer the soul, And grace her mean abode ; O with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 686 Seiten
...where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | 1821 - 468 Seiten
...With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that worship Thee. Thee, if Thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what joy, and peace, and love, She communes with her God ! There, like the nightingale, she pours * Her... | |
 | Charles Sleech Hawtrey - 1822 - 478 Seiten
...Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song-, Nor thirsts... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 Seiten
...became most familiar : — "Tho calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And arc by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee....Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O, with what peace, and joy, xnd IOTP, She communes with her Go<l ! " There, like the nighting.de,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 Seiten
...Lord, I flee; From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most .successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those that fo'.low tuee. There, if the Spirit touch the soul And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace,... | |
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