 | African Americans - 1834 - 300 pages
...of the most beautiful corpses I ever saw. They remind me of two lines of the poet: — On the celd cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. Nor can I forget an anecdote that I heard in my boyhood, that may well apply to the premature interment... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1834 - 236 pages
...earthly gives, or can destroy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to thy door j Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span: Oh ! give relief, and Heav'n will bless thy... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's fair bloom ! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL THE WAY OF SALVATION. THE Scriptures contain an authentic discovery of " the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...earthly gives, or can destroy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. Is virtue's prize. ,. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to thy door Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span : Oh ! give relief, and Heav'n will bless thy... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...on the traveller, faint and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See, truth, love, le : all the officers who surrounded him were killed or wounded. It is related 1 On the cold cheek of death smiles and rotes are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...and the balmy effulgence of morn. See, truth, love, and mercy in triumph descending, And nature ell glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of death smiles and rosee ere blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. OUR FIRST VOLUME. It will be perceived... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...breaks on the traveller, faint and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn: See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending. And Nature all glowing...blending, And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb. EPITAPH ON THE AUTHOR. BY HIMSELF. ESCAPED the gloom of mortal life, a soul Here leaves its mouldering... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 368 pages
...immortality restores. It is a striking personification of death resigning his empire. " Lo, truth, love, and mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb!" The gate of Thun may be considered that of the Oberland, a district which, in 1798, was elevated to... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 668 pages
...the bursting bud and opening flower, to take to our hearts the exquisite sentiment of poetry, that " On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." In all ages, men have been fond of investing the place of the dead with the shade of trees and the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 590 pages
...breath of life breathed into its nostrils, and young blood circulating in its veins; " On the pale cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." We hail with pride, with joy, and with gratitude to the Almighty Author of all blessings, tliis glorious... | |
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And darkness and doubt are now flying away ; No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn : So breaks on the traveller, faint and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See truth, love, and mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing... 
