Songs of Rest: First Series

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Sir William Robertson Nicoll
Hodder and Stoughton, 1886 - 100页

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第79页 - Only remember me ; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that...
第7页 - It is not so, but so it looks ; And we lose courage then ; And doubts will come if GOD hath kept His promises to men.
第15页 - That made him sit so lonely on the shore. But when their tales were done, There spake among them one, A stranger, seeming from all sorrow free: " Sad losses have ye met, But mine is heavier yet ; For a believing heart hath gone from me.
第37页 - When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown. " Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant, Leave not its tenant when its walls decay ; 0 Love Divine, O Helper ever present, Be Thou my strength and stay...
第8页 - Thrice blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field when He Is most invisible.
第75页 - And the mother heart within me Is almost starved for heaven. Sometimes, in the dusk of evening, I only shut my eyes, And the children are all about me, A vision from .the skies: The babes whose dimpled fingers Lost the way to my breast, And the beautiful ones, the angels. Passed to the world of the blest.
第3页 - He is thy gracious Friend, And (O my soul awake!) Did in pure love descend, To die here for thy sake. If thou canst get but thither, There grows the flower of peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress, and thy ease. Leave then thy foolish ranges; For none can thee secure But One who never changes — Thy God, thy life, thy cure!
第6页 - He hides Himself so wondrously, As though there were no God ; He is least seen when all the powers Of ill are most abroad.
第8页 - Blest too is he who can divine Where real right doth lie, And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blindfold eye.
第32页 - It hath refreshment for all thirst, For fainting spirits strength and rest : Earth holds not such a draught as this From east to west. The Tree of Life stood budding there, Abundant with its twelvefold fruits ; Eternal sap sustains its roots, Its shadowing branches fill the air. Its leaves are healing for the world, Its fruit the hungry world can feed, Sweeter than honey to the taste And balm indeed.

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