 | Canterbury hymnal - 1863 - 256 pages
...7-6's. " Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." "BRIEF life is here our portion ; O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest : For...mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1863 - 480 pages
...brief sorrow, — short-lived care; The life that knows no ending — the tearless life — is there. 0 happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners, a mansion with the blest. And now we fight the battle, but then we wear the crown Of full, and everlasting, and passionless renown.... | |
 | Frederick Vaughan Mather - 1863 - 228 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there, 0 happy retribution! Short toil, eternal rest! For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest! There grief is turned to pleasure; Such pleasure, as below No human voice can utter, No human heart... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1863 - 450 pages
...portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. 2 0 happy retribution, Short toil, eternal rest, For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest! 3 And now we fight the battle, And then we wear the crown 0f full and everlasting And passionless renown.... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 366 pages
...And love, and life, and rest. Brief life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow ; short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, — The tearless life,...mansion with the blest ! That we should look, poor wanderers, To have our home on high ! That worms should seek for dwellings Beyond the starry sky !... | |
 | Thomas Davis (incumbent of Roundhay.) - 1864 - 408 pages
...white. 211 t Future Rest. 7676. BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending; The tearless life is there....mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. There grief is turned to pleasure ; Such pleasure as below No human voice can utter, No human heart... | |
 | Samuel Flood Jones - 1864 - 92 pages
...Light, and Kest ! — Amen. 65 BRIEF life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there....For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest ! Now must we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionles... | |
 | Wellington College (England) - 1864 - 254 pages
...heavenly treasure." (Part I.) Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The Life that knows no ending, The tearless Life, is there...For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the Blest ! And now we fight the battle, And then we wear the Crown Of full and everlasting And passionless renown... | |
 | George B. Scott - 1864 - 286 pages
...presence of her blessed Saviour and her God, to serve Him day and night in His glorious temple ! " Oh, happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For...mortals and for sinners, A mansion with the blest." But let us not undraw the curtain farther than to disclose one or two of the more minute circumstances... | |
 | Henry William Burrows - 1864 - 186 pages
...Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. HEAVEN. O happy retribution, Short toil, eternal rest ! For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the hlest ! And now we fight the battle, And then we wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
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BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. 
