 | William Gifford - 1876 - 488 sider
...pathos and moral energy : ' — ' Death is to us a sweet repose : The bud was op'd to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high.' From another of his odes, entitled 'Earth despicable, Heaven desirable,' I would select... | |
 | James Culross - 1876 - 204 sider
...To let the mournful captives go. Death is to us a sweet repose, The bud was oped to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly And build our happy nest on high." " There is a poor dry and wrinkled kernel cast into the ground ; and there it lieth,... | |
 | John Ker, Jean L. Watson - 1880 - 244 sider
...let the mournful captives go. " Death is to us a sweet repose, The bud was oped to shew the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high." Having thus brought the brothers together into the same Church and work, we might go... | |
 | Jean L. Watson - 1881 - 118 sider
...let the mournful captives go. " Death is to us a sweet repose, The bud was op'd to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high." Another quotation from the Sonnets may be given, in which the Gospel is offered in all... | |
 | John Ker - 1887 - 284 sider
...To let the mournful captives go. Death is to us a sweet repose, The bud was oped to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high.' Having thus brought the brothers together into the same Church and work, we might go... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1881 - 654 sider
...let the mournful captives go. " Death is to us a sweet repose, The bud was op'd to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high." His preaching was fnll of yearning for souls, and marked by quaint, attractive beauty... | |
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Death loosed the massy chain of woe, To let the mournful captives go. " Death is to us a sweet repose ; The bud was ope'd to show the rose ; The cage was broke to let us fly, And build our happy nest on high. 
