 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. — LONGFELLOW. You will, no doubt, think this a singularly inappropriate opening to the history of... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1855 - 376 pages
...reality a source of richer blessing — the seed from which spring forth the sweetest flowers of hope. -these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.' She knew that — ' For human weal Heaven husbands all events — ' all things were working together... | |
 | 1855 - 250 pages
...resignation, lie will doubtless derive some consolation from the following lines : Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this daik disguise. We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may uot wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...patient! the«c severe affliction* Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial bénédiction» Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vajx>rs ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal taper* May be Heaven's distant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...the dead ; The hcai't of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly thro' the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Barbour - Children - 1856 - 406 pages
...not be comforted ! — Let ns be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; Bnt 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Devotional literature - 1856 - 314 pages
...gives. The discipline is a more effectual method of training the soul for usefulness and heaven. . " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." Prosperity often petrifies the... | |
 | Religious poetry, American - 1857 - 372 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...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... | |
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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... 
