 | 1851 - 592 pages
...comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise....these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There Is no death ! what seems so is transition ; This life... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...be comforted ? Let ns he 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 ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...from the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and vapors ; 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 ; This... | |
 | 1868
...troublesome days : " 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 : Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...CHAPTER XX. " 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, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...comforted ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise....; 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 ; This... | |
 | M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions 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. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition;... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...comforted. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions That from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1849 - 934 pages
...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 mista and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seera to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's... | |
 | Jabez Burns - Bereavement - 1850 - 240 pages
...be comforted ! Let us be patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise....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 ; This... | |
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Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. 
