 Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.  Lays of the Pious Minstrels - Seite 90von John Bawtree Harvey - 1865 - 180 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1916 - 116 Seiten
...vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted! Let...arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume the dark disguise. We see but vainly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem... | |
 | 1916 - 902 Seiten
...tended, But one dead lamb is there; There is no fireside howe'er defended But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." CW TRULOCK, CA SPENCER, ME CARROLL, Committee. Local Union No. 34, St. Paul, Minn., Passes Resolution... | |
 | 1861 - 810 Seiten
...your mercies, for we all have many more mercies than trials, and — "Let us be patient; these strere afflictions, Not from the ground arise ;But oftentimes...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." JE THE CHEEEY-TBEE. ;HEN- little Anne acd Amy saw the cheirj'tree in Aunt Bow's garden in full bloom,... | |
 | 1918 - 82 Seiten
...vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying; And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying. Will not be comforted. Let...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There... | |
 | Charles Clark Pierce, D.D. - 1918 - 78 Seiten
...vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying; And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 Seiten
...chair! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, I0 But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 Seiten
...crying, Will not be comforted! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, I0 But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 Seiten
...vacant chair I The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted I Let us be patient I These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | 1919 - 966 Seiten
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, s And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel -shaped leaves, I leave thee there in the door yard blooming, returning with spring. I cease fro 4ol iror-, he ground arise, 10 But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - 1919 - 360 Seiten
...slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. 9. What seem to us, but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. — LONGFELLOW : Resignation. 10. The only thing that ever set any man free, the only thing that ever... | |
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