 For thee, O dear, dear Country, mine eyes their vigils keep ; For very love, beholding thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, and love, and life, and rest.  Gottfried's pilgrimage: an allegory - Pagina 57door Wyndham Madden Hutton - 1868 - 64 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pagina’s
...evermore ! " His yearning towards this heavenly home the poet thus tenderly expresses :*— " For thee, 0 dear, dear Country ! Mine eyes their vigils keep ;...For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and... | |
 | 1881 - 494 pagina’s
...city!" No one answered ; at last Magdalene sang gently, as if heedless of the others, " ' For thee, 0 dear dear country. Mine eyes their vigils keep ; For very love beholding Thy happy name, they weep ; The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life,... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pagina’s
...; and it is to the last sixty of these that the spirited lines below are meant to correspond. ' To thee, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, {/eholding(I) Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine... | |
 | 1851 - 636 pagina’s
...Shall we behold for ever, And worship face to face. * * * To thee, O dear, dear country 1 Mine eyas their vigils keep ; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and... | |
 | Henry William Burrows - 1855 - 148 pagina’s
...our King and Portion, In fulness of His grace, Shall we behold for ever, And worship face to face. To thee, O dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils...For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep : The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life,... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pagina’s
...which should at once dissipate all prejudice, fusing it into its own exquisite melody : — " To thce, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep...For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep : The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life,... | |
 | George Cosby White - 1856 - 174 pagina’s
...from GOD, having the glory of Goo : and her light was like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." 176. To thee, O dear, dear Country, Mine eyes their vigils keep: For very love, beholding Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, Thy happy name, they weep : The mention of thy... | |
 | London St. Mary Magdalene, Munster sq - 1857 - 188 pagina’s
...landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. N 122. To thee, O dear, dear Country, Mine eyes their vigils...For very love beholding Thy happy name they -weep ; The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life,... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pagina’s
...its metre. The following is a faint and feeble echo of a few lines of Bernard's long poem : — " To thee, O dear, dear country ! Mine eyes their vigils...For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep ; The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life,... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pagina’s
...meter. The following is a faint and feeble echo of a few lines of Bernard's long poem: "To thec, 0 dear, dear country! Mine eyes their vigils keep ; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep ; The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love and life and... | |
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