 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1849 - 794 páginas
...They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness _The gifts of God are stnwn ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's...the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's isle, Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are... | |
 | Henry Stretton - 1850 - 184 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | 1850 - 492 páginas
...it, we are reminded of the lines of the poet : " What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Japan's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish'd kindness, The gins of God are strewn, The heathen, in their blindness, Bow down to wood and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an aneient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | 1851 - 494 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow -soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Boll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness,... | |
 | William Villers - 1852 - 160 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river ; From many a palmy plain ; They call us to deliver Their land from Error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness... | |
 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal) - 1852 - 226 páginas
...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand — From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain — They call us to deliver Their land from...error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile — In vain, with lavish kindness,... | |
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FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 
