 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 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...and vapours Amid these earthly damps, What seem to ns but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition... | |
 | Samuel Irenĉus Prime - Children - 1852 - 168 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 sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Calendars - 1852 - 340 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions, Not...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... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 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...celestial benedictions • Assume this dark disguise. THE MOURNER'S FRIEND. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps •... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ns be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal takers, May be heaven's distant lamps.... | |
 | Religion - 1852 - 784 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howso'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." And then the last verse : does not its truthful power touch every heart ? — ' We will be patient,... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1852 - 168 pages
...shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps; What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps." LONOIELLOW. MY DEAR MRS. L., I now come to the... | |
 | 1853 - 802 pages
...to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not bo comforted. Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions...vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death. What seems so is transition;... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 290 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...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. , 196 RESIGNATION. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not he comforted ! Let us he patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground...but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these eartbly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no... | |
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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... 
