The Anglican Hymn Book

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Novello, Ewer, 1871 - Hymns, English - 400 pages
 

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Page 331 - A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, — Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.
Page 134 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 259 - The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
Page 10 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 38 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear ! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ! the graves restore The dead which they contained before ! Prepare, my soul, to meet him.
Page 11 - Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take, Till in the ocean of thy love We lose ourselves in heaven above.
Page 173 - Teach us to know the Father, Son, And thee, of both, to be but One. That, through the ages all along, This may be our endless song ; Praise to thy eternal merit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Page 179 - To God the Son belongs Immortal glory too, Who bought us with His blood From everlasting woe : And now he lives, and now he reigns, And sees the fruit of all His pains.
Page 57 - Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith appeared a shining throng of angels praising God...

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