...storms clouds rise! Where no hearse wheels are rolling! Where everyday shall be Sunday! I can sang "When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid Farwell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly...

...rises to my sight! Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight. (Stennett, Jordanl When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, 1 bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. (Watts, When titlel A few other themes were...

...presumptuously believeth, but " to him that overcometh " all the promises of Christ are addressed, Rev. ii. iii. When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. Should earth against my soul engage, And hellish...

...lonesome graveyard" down by the side of the swamp, they sung the well-known hymn of Dr. Isaac Watts: When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear And wipe my weeping eyes. Mary's baby was taken to the graveyard by its...

...Dwight's Journal of Music declared that, when hundreds of blacks "join[ed] in the chorus of such a hymn as 'When I can read my title clear, / To mansions in the skies,' the unimpassioned hearer is almost lifted from his feet by the volume and majesty of the sound. "3...

...one singing. It was not a usual sound there, and he paused to listen. A musical tenor voice sang, " When I can read my title clear To mansions in the...farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. "Should earth against my soul engage, And hellish darts be hurled, Then I can smile at Satan's rage,...

...of the strain seems to ease from the lieutenant's face as he sits listening to the two of them sing: When I can read my title clear . . . to mansions in...farewell to every fear, and wipe my weeping eyes. Punnie sings in the way of small children, misconstruing difficult phrases into curious little poetries:...