...secretaries, "You girls look dejected and as you like rhymes, here's a little one for you: "Be not dismayed, these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise....celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Governor Roosevelt sent congratulations to Ross on his reappointment. Ross sent Roosevelt his newly...

...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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps....

...sinned), the earth has Apoca-Lips Now "We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthy damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow been under a curse. As good as things get sometimes, they're never close...

...in the midst of your desolation, try to remember:— "We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heavens distant lamps. She is not dead,—the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school...

...Fireside in 1849, affirms his belief in a Providence whose workings are mysterious but ultimately benign: Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise Death is but a transition, a portal to "a suburb of the life elysian," where little Fanny lives on,...

...agony of an instant: The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 23. Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. HW Longfellow 1807-1882 Resignation 24. Earth has not sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore...