 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...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 tins dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seem... | |
 | M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...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...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...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 us be patient ! these severe afflictions That from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see... | |
 | Jabez Burns - Bereavement - 1850 - 240 pages
...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 dim, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted. Let us be patiect ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...vapours; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lampe. There is no death ! what seems so is transition;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! 23 Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...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... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...chair. "The air is full of farewells for the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! " Let us be patient ! Those severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...chair. " The air is full of farewells for the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Racbael, sional occupation. Southey, when speaking of Spenser, describes him ! Those severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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...earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
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Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, 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... 
