It lies around us like a cloud

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

It lies around us like a cloud

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1860)
Published in 6 hymnals

Representative Text

1 It lies around us like a cloud,
A world we do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye
May bring us there to be.
Its gentle breezes fan our cheek;
Amid our worldly cares
Its gentle voices whisper love,
And mingle with our pray'rs.

2 Sweet hearts around us throb and beat,
Sweet helping hands are stir'd,
And palpitate the veil between,
With breathings almost heard.
So thin, so soft, so sweet they glide,
So near to press they seem,
They lull us gently to our rest,
Thy melt into our dream.

3 And in the hush of rest they bring,
'Tis easy now to see
How lovely and how sweet a pass
The hour of depth may be,
Scare knowing if we wake or sleep,
Scarce asking where we are,
To feel all evil sink away,
All sorrow and all care.

4 Sweet sounds around us! watch us still;
Press nearer to our side,
Into our tho'ts, into our pray'rs,
With gentle helpings glide,
Let death between us be as naught,
A dread and vanished stream;
Your joy be a reality,
Our suff'ring life the dream.

Source: Spiritualist Hymnal (3rd ed.) #119

All representative texts • Compare texts • Text size: Regular | Large ^ top

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe, Harriet, née Beecher, daughter of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D., was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 15, 1812. In 1832, her father having been appointed President of Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, she removed therewith the family; and in 1833 was married to the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, D.D., Professor of Languages and Biblical Literature in the same Institution. Her high reputation as an author is well known; and the immense success of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which first appeared in The National Era, in 1852, ensures her a lasting reputation. She has also written other well-known works. Three of her hymns appeared in the Plymouth Collection, edited by her brother, H. W. Beecher, in 1855:— 1. Still, still with Thee, when purple mo… Go to person page >

^ top