We All Do Fade As a Leaf
We All Do Fade As a Leaf – R.M. McCheyne SHE LIVED— So dying-like and frail, SHE LIVED— So dying-like and frail, That every bitter gale Of winter seemed to blow Only to lay her low! She lived to show how He, Who stills the stormy sea, Can overrule the winter’s power, And keep alive […]
Poem Written for his Father’s Birthday
Poem Written for his Father’s Birthday – R.M. McCheyne Ah! where is the harp that was strung to thy praise,So oft and so sweetly in happier days? When his brother David (who generally wrote a birthday song) was no longer on earth. Ah! where is the harp that was strung to thy praise,So oft and […]
Peace to This House
Peace to This House – R.M. McCheyne Long may peace within this dwelling Have its resting place; Long may peace within this dwelling Have its resting place;Angel shields all harm repelling— God, their God of grace. May the dove-like Spirit guide them To the Upright land!May the Saviour-shepherd feed them From his gentle hand! Facebook […]
Peace Be to Thee
Peace Be to Thee – R.M. McCheyne Peace be to thee, gentle boy!Many years of health and joy! Peace be to thee, gentle boy!Many years of health and joy!Love your Bible more than play—Grow in wisdom every day.Like the lark on hovering wing,Early rise, and mount and sing;Like the dove that found no restTill it […]
On the Death of the Wife of an English Clergyman
On the Death of the Wife of an English Clergyman – R.M. McCheyne Oft as she taught the little maids of FranceTo leave the garland, catanet, and dance, Oft as she taught the little maids of FranceTo leave the garland, catanet, and dance,And listen to the words which she would sayAbout the crowns that never […]
On Reading Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted
On Reading Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted – R.M. McCheyne Though Baxter’s lips have long in silence hung,And death long hush’d that sinner-wakening tongue; Though Baxter’s lips have long in silence hung,And death long hush’d that sinner-wakening tongue;Yet still, though dead, he speaks aloud to all,And from the grave still issues forth his “Call.”Like some […]
He Tenderly Binds Up the Broken in Heart
He Tenderly Binds Up the Broken in Heart – R.M. McCheyne He tenderly binds up the broken in heart, The soul bowed down he will raise; He tenderly binds up the broken in heart, The soul bowed down he will raise;For mourning the ointment of joy will impart, For heaviness garments of praise. Ah, come […]
Gideon’s Fleece
Gideon’s Fleece – R.M. McCheyne When God called Gideon forth to fight—“Go, save thou Israel in thy might,— When God called Gideon forth to fight—“Go, save thou Israel in thy might,—The faithful warrior sought a signThat God would on his labors shine. The man who, at thy dread command, Lifted the shield and deadly brand, […]
Fragment Written on the Death of His Brother
Fragment Written on the Death of His Brother- R.M. McCheyne A grave I knowWhere earthly show
I Will Arise and Seek My God
I Will Arise and Seek My God – R.M. McCheyne I will arise and seek my God,And, bowed down beneath my load, I will arise and seek my God,And, bowed down beneath my load, Lay all my sins before Him;Then He will wash my soul from sin,And put a new heart me within, And teach […]