 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mourning for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. ~\V>> see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, TVhat seem to us but... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...spiritual objects, is somewhat analogous to a November fog ? Beautifully has Longfellow said — " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." " We now see through a glass darkly," says the Apostle, " but then face to face. Now I know in part,... | |
 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...loaded basket in his arms, and has broken his collar-bone — you remember him — old Ben Harris." " Let us be patient : these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." But for some such feeling the intelligence thus conveyed to Junie would have been utterly overwhelming.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...meunrings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted! " Let ua be patient ! these severe afflictions, Not from the...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We sea but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid th&M earthly dnmps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 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 Not from die ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1854 - 204 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 from...tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Lut us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May bo heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
 | Benjamin Richings - 1854 - 326 pages
...chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mourners for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let...disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amidst these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapera, May be Heaven's distant lamps.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Bereavement - 1854 - 292 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, Hay be Heaven's distant... | |
 | 1856 - 678 pages
...chair ! Tlie 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 vapour* ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant... | |
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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... 
