 | 1883 - 92 pages
...absolute rest. If too late to bleed, rely upon the hypodermic administration of morphine. You may fail, but "in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Inject it cautiously, slowly, watching the effect upon her breathing ; slow it gradually ; bring it... | |
 | 1890 - 668 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Then, again, in his remarks at the grave of a child of a friend, he says, " We do not know whether... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry ; from the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death...breath, ' I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of 3oubts and dogmas, and tears and fears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead."... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death...a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of awing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
 | John E. Cutler - 1881 - 196 pages
...: our only answer is The mocking echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead There comes no word : but in the night of death,...Hope sees a star ; and, listening, love can hear The soothing rustle of angelic wing ! " PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. 'Tis past the hour of noon, and swift... | |
 | Morgan E. Dowling - 1882 - 190 pages
...the awful silence of death, at his brother's grave, that u From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." And again: " The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1883 - 210 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreply*g dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death hope lees a star, and listening love hears the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1884 - 266 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry ; from the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of death...here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for returning health, whispered with his latest breath, '/ am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 686 pages
...aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, " I am better now." Let us believe, in spite... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pages
...reason be entertained. In his well-known address delivered at the funeral of his brother, he declared, " In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustling of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return... | |
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word... 
