 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...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 354by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 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, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume tins dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seem... | |
 | M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 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, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | Jabez Burns - Bereavement - 1850 - 240 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,...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... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted. Let us be patiect ! 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... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...The heart of Rachael, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! " Let us be patient ! Those severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume their dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps ; What... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...The heart of Racbael, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! " Let us be patient ! Those — and C their dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps ; What... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 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,...these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taners, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 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,...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... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 406 pages
...there is a remedy for all, save death, afforded no consolation. — Allah Kerim ! " 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... | |
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