 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 vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May...  The Church - Page 2611868Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...spiritual objects, is somewhat analogous to a November fog ? Beautifully has Longfellow said — " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." " We now see through a glass darkly," says the Apostle, " but then face to face. Now I know in part,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...dying, And mourning for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. ~\V>> see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, TVhat seem to us but... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 pages
...dying, And mournings for the dead : The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient : these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. 196 BESIGNATION. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem... | |
 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...loaded basket in his arms, and has broken his collar-bone — you remember him — old Ben Harris." " Let us be patient : these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." But for some such feeling the intelligence thus conveyed to Junie would have been utterly overwhelming.... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...meunrings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted! " Let ua be patient ! these severe afflictions, Not from the...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We sea but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid th&M earthly dnmps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from die ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists ana vapors , Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1854 - 204 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions. Not...sad funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! What seems so in transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
 | 1854 - 268 pages
...of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
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