 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pagina’s
...outward gesture. The poet Montgomery beautifully expresses this : — " Prayer, is the heaving of a sigh; The falling of a tear : The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. " Prayer, is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayers are the highest strain that reach The Majesty... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pagina’s
...unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; • The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Pr?y'r is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Pray'r the sublimest strams that... | |
 | 1819 - 788 pagina’s
...orunexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital brea'th, That infant lips... | |
 | 1819 - 774 pagina’s
...unexprcss'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pagina’s
...unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty... | |
 | 1819 - 576 pagina’s
...The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The failing of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye. When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strain« that reach The Majesty... | |
 | 610 pagina’s
...unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast.' " Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye. When none bat God is near. " Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the snblimest... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1820 - 490 pagina’s
...unexprest; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray 'r is the burjjbit of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but GOD is near. 3 Pray'r is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Pray'r, the sublimes! strains that... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 pagina’s
...unexprest ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Praver the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty... | |
 | Selection - 1822 - 276 pagina’s
...unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burthen of a -sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that... | |
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Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 
