Yale Book of American VerseYale University Press, 1913 - 570 pages |
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... , from the isles of the ocean , Praise to Jehovah ascending on high ; Fallen are the engines of war and commotion ; Shouts of salvation are rending the sky ! In Sorrow Gently , Lord , oh , gently lead [ 7 ] THOMAS HASTINGS 1784-1872.
... , from the isles of the ocean , Praise to Jehovah ascending on high ; Fallen are the engines of war and commotion ; Shouts of salvation are rending the sky ! In Sorrow Gently , Lord , oh , gently lead [ 7 ] THOMAS HASTINGS 1784-1872.
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Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury. In Sorrow Gently , Lord , oh , gently lead us , Pilgrims in this vale of tears , Through the trials yet decreed us , Till our last great change appears . When temptation's darts assail us , When in devious ...
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury. In Sorrow Gently , Lord , oh , gently lead us , Pilgrims in this vale of tears , Through the trials yet decreed us , Till our last great change appears . When temptation's darts assail us , When in devious ...
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... gentle hill its side inclines , Lovely in England's fadeless green , To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene As silently and sweetly still , As when , at evening , on that hill , While summer's wind blew soft ...
... gentle hill its side inclines , Lovely in England's fadeless green , To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene As silently and sweetly still , As when , at evening , on that hill , While summer's wind blew soft ...
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... gentle Kate , " Are some half - dozen serving - men In the drab coat of William Penn ; A chambermaid , whose lip and eye , And cheek , and brown hair , bright and curling , Spoke nature's artistocracy ; And one , half groom , half ...
... gentle Kate , " Are some half - dozen serving - men In the drab coat of William Penn ; A chambermaid , whose lip and eye , And cheek , and brown hair , bright and curling , Spoke nature's artistocracy ; And one , half groom , half ...
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... gentle , and caressing , As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look like patient Job's eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art , in sober truth , the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a ...
... gentle , and caressing , As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look like patient Job's eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art , in sober truth , the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a ...
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