 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1857 - 1070 pages
...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid...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... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 282 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that... | |
 | 1850 - 44 pages
...this world of sorrow and suffering. So happily he passed away, that we may say with the poet, " There is no death! what seems so, is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." In his entire character, he was well worthy... | |
 | Church missionary society - 636 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 mist and vapours — Amid these earthlv damps : What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pages
...transition—not an end, but a stage on the way; not a door closing, but a door opening. Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." George Meredith wrote: "Death met I too,... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1916 - 620 pages
...body. The mystery of life is not the narrow span between the cradle and the grave. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. EC STEVENSON, Rockwell City. THOMAS C. GILPIN;... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...crying, Will not be comforted! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark...Amid 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... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central Pennsylvania - 1906 - 1064 pages
...died and rose again and that those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him. Alleluia ! " There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death." Respectfully submitted, WDE SCOTT, C. LUTHER... | |
 | Michael Wallis - 1995 - 532 pages
...wrapped in his overcoat and grief, read the inscriptions chiseled on the front of the mausoleum: "There is no death! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian whose portal we call death." — Longfellow "Some evening when the sky... | |
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There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. 
