| Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 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,...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... | |
| Light - Hymns, English - 1859 - 186 pages
...for 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 dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 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... | |
| mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1859 - 460 pages
...you remember those beautiful lines of Longfellow's you read me the other day? ' 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... | |
| John Marshall Lowrie - Bible - 1859 - 282 pages
...love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose !" Rom. viii. 28. "Let us be patieut ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise-;...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... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1859 - 354 pages
...the shock at length more dreadful and disastrous ? She did uot see all the way. " 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 seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 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,...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... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...for 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 mist and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be... | |
| Francis Wharton - Skepticism - 1859 - 410 pages
...patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictiqns 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 be heaven's distant lamps. Far different is the confidence... | |
| Joseph Barlow Robinson - Epitaphs - 1859 - 220 pages
...when God resumes the gem he gave ; For sorrow comes of Death. MBS. HEMANS. 68(3. Let us be patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. LONGFELLOW. 687. Oh, mystery of death ! Unspoken of our breath ; We feel, but know thee not, We can... | |
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