| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...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 l>e heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 330 pages
...lighten the shadows that press heavily upon me every now and then, as I think and write. CHAPTER IX. " Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW. THERE are some days which, in their excess of brightness, from break of morning to the... | |
| John William Marsh - Missionaries - 1857 - 442 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...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. WHEN the last scene of this eventful history became known in England, the most opposite... | |
| Religious poetry, American - 1857 - 372 pages
...defended, 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! 353 Let us bo patient 1 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... | |
| 1857 - 1838 pages
...resignation and peace. Let us conclude with a few verses of lofty precepts and tender consolation : — " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly thro* the mist and vapours, And these earthly damps; What seem to as but funeral Upers May be heaven's... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1857 - 1070 pages
...own daughter. CHAPTER XX. " Lot us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arlse, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the inists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, Hay be heaven's... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. t Whittier. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 336 pages
...for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. f Whittier. Let us be patient I these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
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