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Songs of the Soul: gathered out of many lands and ages

Editor: Samuel Irenaeus Prime
Publisher: Robert Carter and Brothers, New York, 1880
Language: English
Notes: Numbering is by page number
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146God comes! and who shall stand before his fear?Page Scan
147Thou inevitable dayPage Scan
149In his wide field walks the MasterPage Scan
151Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chillPage Scan
151bThat great Day of wrath and terrorPage Scan
155Day of wrath! of days that Day!Page Scan
158Lo, the Day, the Day of LifePage Scan
163There is a rapturous movement, a green growingPage Scan
164When God came down from heaven, the living GodPage Scan
165When I survey the wondrous crossPage Scan
166O soul of Jesus, sick to death!Page Scan
168Thou who didst hang upon a barren treePage Scan
169I bore with thee long weary days and nightsPage Scan
170Sunlight upon Judea's hillsPage Scan
172O Thou who, though with veiled facePage Scan
174I thirst! the blessed Saviour saidPage Scan
176Down through the hushed and thickening airPage Scan
177O cross, that only knowest the woesPage Scan
178Stood the mournful Mother weepingPage Scan
181O head, so full of bruises!Page Scan
182The royal banners forward goPage Scan
183Sing, my tongue, the glorious battlePage Scan
185Be the cross our theme and storyPage Scan
188Jesus, hail! the world's salvationPage Scan
190Hail, thou Head! so bruised and woundedPage Scan
192O sacred Head! now woundedPage Scan
195O Jesus! sweet the tears I shedPage Scan
196Art thou weary, art thou languidPage Scan
197When landing first on Sharon's plainPage Scan
203The glories of our birth and statePage Scan
204Count each affliction, whether light or gravePage Scan
205Arise! this day shall shinePage Scan
206Speechless sorrow sat with mePage Scan
207Father! before thy footstool kneelingPage Scan
209O thou who dry'st the mourner's tearPage Scan
210In this dim world of clouding caresPage Scan
211Two angels, one of Life and one of DeathPage Scan
213Take them, O Death, and bear awayPage Scan
213bRoom for our treasure, closèd tomb!Page Scan
214The voice which I did more esteemPage Scan
215In the June twilight, in the soft, gray twilightPage Scan
217There is a reaper whose name is DeathPage Scan
218We watched her breathing through the nightPage Scan
219O ye who say, "We have a child in heaven"Page Scan
220When the morning, half in shadowPage Scan
222My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!Page Scan
224Another hand is beckoning usPage Scan
226God bless the little feet that can never go astrayPage Scan
228Child, by God's sweet mercy givenPage Scan
229I cannot make him dead!Page Scan
231Thou touchest us lightly, O God, in our griefPage Scan
233How calm, how beautiful, he lies!Page Scan
235To-day we cut the fragrant sodPage Scan
236Poor earth, poor heart,--too weak, too weakPage Scan
238There is no flock, however watched and tendedPage Scan
240Ah! hush now your mournful complainingsPage Scan
243Thine is a grief, the depth of which anotherPage Scan
245"God lent him and takes him," you sighPage Scan
246They are all gone into the world of light!Page Scan
251Hear me, O God! A broken heartPage Scan
252Why am I loath to leave this earthly scene?Page Scan
253Up from the deeps, O God, I cry to thee!Page Scan
255With terror thou dost strike me now, life's fearfuldying day!Page Scan
257Am I a stone, and not a sheepPage Scan
257bJesus, pitying Saviour, hear mePage Scan
258My sins, my sins, my Saviour!Page Scan
260Lord, many times I am aweary quitePage Scan
260bI know it is my sinne which locks thine earesPage Scan
261Oh do not use mePage Scan
262Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!Page Scan
263Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing carePage Scan
263bPoore heart, lament!Page Scan
265Oh! I could go through all life's troubles singingPage Scan
267Oh for the happy days gone byPage Scan
269Ah! dearest Lord, I cannot prayPage Scan
272The winds were howling o'er the deepPage Scan
273Father of love, who didst not sparePage Scan
275Take me, O my Father, take me!Page Scan
276My God, oh let me call thee minePage Scan
277To thee, O dear, long-suffering LordPage Scan
278Saviour, when in dust to theePage Scan
279I come, O Lord, to theePage Scan
281When at thy footstool, Lord, I bendPage Scan
282Here behold me, as I cast mePage Scan
283O blessed my JesuPage Scan
284From the recesses of a lowly spiritPage Scan
285Lord, at this moment thou art surely herePage Scan
286My God! lo, here before thy facePage Scan
289O Lord God eternalPage Scan
291Thou who dost dwell alonePage Scan
293From my lips in their defilementPage Scan
295Jesu, name all names abovePage Scan
299The bird let loose in eastern skiesPage Scan
299bO God, O Kinsman loved, but not enough!Page Scan
301When Christ let fall that sanguine showerPage Scan
302Fighting the battle of lifePage Scan
304Jesus, Saviour, pass not by!Page Scan
305Lord, what a change within us one short hourPage Scan
306Lord, who art merciful as well as justPage Scan
306bWhen prayer delights thee least, then learn to sayPage Scan

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