Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
Warden of Sackville College.
FIFTH EDITION.
Scanned, proofed and formatted, July 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
| Sion’s lyre, thou best content That e’er Heav’n to mortals lent, Though they as a trifle leave thee, Whose dull thoughts cannot conceive thee, Though to them thou be a scorn Who to nought but earth are born, May my life no longer be Than I am in love with thee! Wither. |
TO
THE SUPERIOR
AND
THE OTHER SISTERS
OF
The House of Mercy at Clewer.
WITH THANKFULNESS FOR THEIR PAST, AND PRAYERS FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS,
THESE HYMNS
ARE DEDICATED.