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" 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... "
Poems - Page 342
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850
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A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

Augusta Jane Evans - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 258 pages
...made music in your lonely home, but dear friend, in the midst of your desolation, try to remember:— "We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid...damps. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heavens distant lamps. She is not dead,—the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school...
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Yes, There Is Something You Can Do: 150 Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for ...

Meditations - 192 pages
...Thrice happy then if some soul can say "I live because he has passed this way." /— <p Stephen Crane We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. Author Unknown — - Rabindranath Tagore V I feel and...
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Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life

Charles C. Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 358 pages
...Fireside in 1849, affirms his belief in a Providence whose workings are mysterious but ultimately benign: Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise Death is but a transition, a portal to "a suburb of the life elysian," where little Fanny lives on,...
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Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life when Your Life Makes No Sense

Jean-Claude Koven - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 454 pages
...downloaded into his being. Tears filled his eyes as he was transported into the Council's presence. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven 's distant lamps. — HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW CHAPTER 7 The State of...
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Under the Southern Cross: Or, a Woman's Life Work for Africa

Emma Hillmon Haviland - Travel - 2005 - 465 pages
...these severe affliction! Not from the ground arise; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume thig dark disguise. "We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps, What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. "There la no death. What seems...
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Towards Higher Consciousness - Spiritual Insights

136 pages
...the agony of an instant: The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 23. Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. HW Longfellow 1807-1882 Resignation 24. Earth has not sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore...
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