 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;...  Psyche and Miscellaneous Poems - Page 145by John E. Cutler - 1881 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 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... | |
 | 1879 - 640 pages
...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...death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1890 - 668 pages
...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...hope sees a star, 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... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 284 pages
...eternities. We slrive-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...unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of deatli hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when... | |
 | James Baird McClure - Rationalism - 1879 - 192 pages
...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 conies no word; but in the night of death hope sees ,t star and listening love can he*ar the rustle... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Spiritualism - 1880 - 408 pages
...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...hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1880 - 340 pages
...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...hope sees 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... | |
 | Junius Benjamin Remensnyder - Future punishment - 1880 - 426 pages
...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." Ah ! verily, none know so well, down in their deepest experiences, as do the votaries of Reason how... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1881 - 172 pages
...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...death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of... | |
 | Morgan E. Dowling - Church - 1882 - 190 pages
...Mr. Ingersoll has said while standing in the awful silence of death, at his brother's grave, that u From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there...death hope sees a star 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... | |
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