| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...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 through the mists ana vapors , Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...dark disguise. ~\V>> see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, TVhat seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gons unto that school Where she no longer needs... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 320 pages
...1 CHAPTER X. THE NOBLE ARMY OF MAKTYKS. " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark...sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." ". Blessed arc they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. i We see but dimly through the mists and vapon Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad,...so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1854 - 292 pages
...Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark...earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal... | |
| 1873 - 768 pages
...»e comforted! Let us be patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But of i "in r celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise....vapors : Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral topers May be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death I what .seems so is transition... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 388 pages
...sing what the poet felt and well expressed, " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark...mists and vapors, ~ Amid these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. " And though at times, impetuous... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...t dimly throu gh the m ists and vapours Ainiil these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no...Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal brealh Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, the child... | |
| 1856 - 678 pages
...Will not be comforted ! 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 vapour* ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant... | |
| Benjamin Richings - 1854 - 326 pages
...Will not be comforted. 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 vapours, Amidst these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapera, May be Heaven's distant... | |
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