 | English literature - 1856 - 642 pages
...Why have I never been gifted with this beautiful vision, for which now I thirst? Vain questions ! — "What hope of answer or redress? Behind the veil — behind the veil/ The music changes. She is singing Pergolesi's 'Agnus Dei ' now — the 'Agnus ' we used to sing together.... | |
 | William John Conybeare - English fiction - 1856 - 360 pages
...Why have I never been gifted with this beatific vision, for which now I thirst ? Yain questions ! ' What hope of answer or redress ? Behind the veil. Behind the veil.' " The music changes. She is singing Pergolesi's Agnus Dei now — the Agnus we used to sing together.... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - 1857 - 440 pages
...; but the curtain has fallen, the room is darkened. This is no place for you or me ; let us away. " Peace, come away ; the song of woe Is after all an earthly song : Peace, come away ; we do her wrong To sing so wildly ; let us go." CHAPTER XLIL Sevastopol taken— What the End ?— English... | |
 | Art - 1857 - 520 pages
...music matched with him. 0, life, as futile then as frail, — 0 for th~ voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress : Behind the veil, behind the veil !" The sagacity of the poet here, — that strange sagacity which seems so nearly akin to the prophetic... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1857 - 398 pages
...sealed wiihin the iron hills ? O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voiue to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil." What to this mysterious question, to this yearning over Humanity, is the material sublime of even a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bible and evolution - 1857 - 520 pages
...music, match'd with him. O, life, as futile then as frail, — O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress, Behind the veil, behind the veil !" The sagacity of the poet here, — that strange sagacity which seems so nearly akin to the prophetic... | |
 | 1855 - 338 pages
...music match'd with him, O life as futile, then, as frail ! 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless ! — What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil. And, as a last echo of this morbid, hysterical poem — which the poetry-critic of Blackwood does not... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail 1 O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil. And, as a last echo of this morbid, hysterical poem — which the poetry-critic of Blackwood does not... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 340 pages
...monarch had fallen. " O life ! as futile, then, as frail— Oh for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress Behind the veil, behind the veil ? " The story of the closing scene of Hugh Miller's existence, so far as man could tell it, has been... | |
 | William Tidd Matson - English poetry - 1858 - 548 pages
...here to triumph in the skies, And wear the victor's crown with saints in heaven. BEHIND THE VEIL. " What hope of answer or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil!" IN Sweet flowers that shine amid the gloom, And blossom on the skirts of Death ; That stir the soul... | |
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No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind... 
