 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Rose Foot - 1859 - 344 pages
...comforted." " The flowers He gathers are for a wreath divine." — Rose's Offering. " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." — LONGFELLOW. IT was evening, and a calm, delicious evening it was, at Sea View. The day had been... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1859 - 294 pages
...and on the saddened, awestruck faces of the weary crowd. 241 CHAPTER X. -' Let us be patient, then, severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." LONGFELLOW. AFTER that night, there was no more rioting in Kingsmills. The storm had come, done its... | |
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