James Montgomery Quotes

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Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

James Montgomery
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

James Montgomery
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.

James Montgomery
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.

James Montgomery
Give me the hand that is honest and hearty,
Free as the breeze and unshackled by party.

James Montgomery
Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.

James Montgomery
Friend after friend departs;
Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.

James Montgomery
Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life before?

James Montgomery
Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey,
Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,
Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;
Till, swoln with captures, the unwieldy burden
Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,
These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.
There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,
Gorging their hapless victims one by one;
Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,
Till evening roused them to the chase again.

James Montgomery
Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.

James Montgomery
'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

James Montgomery
Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky.

James Montgomery
Return unto thy rest, my soul,
From all the wanderings of thy thought,
From sickness unto death made whole,
Safe through a thousand perils brought.

James Montgomery
When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

James Montgomery
Baptize the nations! far and nigh,
The triumphs of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify,
Till every people call Him Lord.

James Montgomery