She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. Bonnie Jeannie - Page 28by Mary Onley - 1881 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1851 - 592 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead— the child of our affection— But gone unto that school...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air. Year after year her tender... | |
| Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school,...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great Cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| 1856 - 686 pages
...elysian, Whose portal we call Death. Site is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone untft that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection. And Christ himself doth rule. In lhat great cluisier's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels ltd, ,'"!:<• from temptation,... | |
| History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great Cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angrls led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of oar affection, — But gone unto that school Where she...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe .from temptation, safe... | |
| John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1849 - 934 pages
...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She ie not dead— the child of our affectionBut gone unto that school, Where she no longer needs our poor protection. And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| 1850 - 682 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the Ufe Elysian, Whose portal wo call Death. Shp и not dead,— the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school...our poor protection, And Christ Himself doth rule. In that crcat cloister's el illness and seclusion, Ну guardian angele led,— Safe from terajitatiou,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school,...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
| Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...mortal breath Is hut a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school...Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And ChrUt himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe... | |
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