John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| James Montgomery. (1771–1854) (continued) |
| 5202 |
| Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love. |
| The Issues of Life and Death. |
| 5203 |
| Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years. |
| The Issues of Life and Death. |
| 5204 |
| Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before? |
| The Falling Leaf. |
| 5205 |
| Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day’s march nearer home. |
| At Home in Heaven. |
| 5206 |
| If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found! |
| The Earth full of God’s Goodness. |
| 5207 |
| Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought. |
| Rest for the Soul. |
| 5208 |
| Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,— The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. |
| What is Prayer? |
| 5209 |
| Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. |
| What is Prayer? |