 | Spirit - 1868 - 338 pagini
...Yes, calm ! for storm is past, — And goal from finished labour, And anchorage at last. BIE !•' life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short.lived...that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. O happv retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ! For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest... | |
 | Laurence Tuttiett - 1868 - 224 pagini
...Then bid our spirits rise and shine In everlasting day. Anne Steele "I create Jerusalem a rejoicing." Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived...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 bless'd... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church, Charles Sumner Nutter - 1884 - 488 pagini
...found in Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences, third edition, 1867. 1059 Briff »arrow — eternal rat. 7, 6. BRIEF life is here our portion; Brief sorrow, short-lived...that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. О happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest!... | |
 | Edward Anderson - 1900 - 306 pagini
...rust do not corrupt and thieves do not break through and steal.' "You remember that ancient hymn: " 'Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived...that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. Reward of grace, how wondrous! Short toil — eternal rest! Oh, miracle of mercy, That rebels should... | |
 | Bernard (of Cluny) - 1900 - 28 pagini
...glory ; Instead of death, that fife Wherewith jour happy Country, True Israelites ! is rife. >RIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived...The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is Tkert. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinner A mansion with the... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood - 1901 - 486 pagini
...decamped. We went to church after breakfast. The first hymn sung was that one beginning, "Brief life." " Brief life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived...that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there." As the verses went on, John touched my elbow : " Miss Gay," he whispered ; his eyelashes moist with... | |
 | Louise Manning Hodgkins - 1901 - 282 pagini
...swallowed up. — ST. JOSEPH, of the Studium (850). Translated by JM NKALE. II The Jerusalem that is Above Brief life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived...that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. Oh, happy retribution, Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest.... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1901 - 542 pagini
...row, short-lived care ; \— The life that knows no -f^rend - ing, The tear - less 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 shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless... | |
 | 1902 - 184 pagini
...Thee my hopes I cast ; O guide me through the desert here, And bring me home at last. Rev. HF LYTE. BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived...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... | |
 | Mary Stewart Cutting - 1902 - 278 pagini
...the choir boys singing now in the little churchyard near by as they marched around the open grave, "Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, shortlived...that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. Oh happy retribution, Short toil, eternal rest! For mortals and for sinners, A mansion with the blest."... | |
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BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, shortlived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there. 
