 | Eileen Southern - 1997 - 710 pages
...1801 collection and is still a favorite of black congregations today. The first stanza is as follows: When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev'ry fear And wipe my weeping eyes. An interrelation between other spirituals... | |
 | William A. Owens - 1997 - 372 pages
...Title Clear." A compromise arrived at, the Mendis, thirty-five of them including the children, sang: "When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. . . ." They sang the words to the tune of... | |
 | Geoffrey C. Carnell - 1998 - 124 pages
...issued by the funeral home on behalf of the Department of Vital Statistics. Chapter Four The First Call When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. — Isaac Watts, Hymns dy Spiritual Songs... | |
 | Troy Messenger - 1999 - 198 pages
...hallowed the people of the Grove and the place of their meeting. PART II PERFORMING HOLINESS BODY AND SOUL When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev 'ry fear, and wipe my weeping eyes. . . . There shall I bathe my weary soul... | |
 | Troy Messenger - 2000 - 196 pages
...BODY AND SOUL When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev'ryfear, and wipe my weeping eyes. . . . There shall I bathe my weary soul in seas ofheav'nly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll across my peaceful breast. Isaac Watts, 7707 A striking... | |
 | Louis Fairchild - 2002 - 364 pages
...perfume. 1 K 1 Another Watts revival favorite repeated this sense of assurance in the face of death: When I can read my title clear, To mansions in the skies. I Tl bid farewell to ev 'ry fear, A nd wipe my weeping eyes. There, anchor d safe, my weary soul Shall... | |
 | Francis Spufford - 2002 - 370 pages
...blizzard. The emotions in them needed no caveats. Sometimes it was individual hope that they asserted: When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear And wipe my weeping eyes. Perhaps heaven is one possession you can... | |
 | Federal Writers' Project - 2003 - 492 pages
...storm." We sung a lot of others such as: "I Am Bound for the Promised Land," "The Old Time Religion," and "When I Can Read My Title Clear, To Mansions in the Skies." My favorites was the ones I just give you and they are still my favorite songs. I was born in Johnson... | |
 | Andrew Wilson-Dickson - 2003 - 268 pages
...favourites) and perhaps adapted from popular English hymns, for example, the popular hymn by Isaac Watts: When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev'ryfear, And wipe my weeping eyes. This became the basis for several spirituals,... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 32 pages
...hope so." Or somebody says, "Well, I am doing the best I can." But you can know. One old song says, When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev'ry fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. That song indicates that perhaps one has... | |
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WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. 
