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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,—
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
The Pelican Island (1827)
Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When to the cross I turn my eyes,
And rest on Calvary,
O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,
I must remember Thee.
His home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.
Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.
The nursery of brooding Pelicans,
The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,
And all the minor spots of rock and verdure,
The abodes of happy millions, were no more.
The Pelican Island (1827)