 | Children - 1858 - 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...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us hut sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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 the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benediction.} Assume this dark disguise. She is not dead — the child of our affection ; But gone... | |
 | John Cumming - 1858 - 628 pages
...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 he heaven's distant lamps. ' There is no death. What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
 | Light - Hymns, English - 1859 - 186 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...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... | |
 | mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1859 - 460 pages
...blessing in disguise. Do you remember those beautiful lines of Longfellow's you read me the other day? ' Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps.' " "Ah, Ethel, poetry is very beautiful when we are happy ! and it is all very well, too, to read of... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 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...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 lamps.... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1859 - 354 pages
...served only to make the shock at length more dreadful and disastrous ? She did uot see all the way. " Let us be patient, these severe afflictions, Not from...mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." Be patient then, and leave the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 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...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapours Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's... | |
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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... 
