 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...her children ciying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not frora the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see bu t dimly throu gh the m ists and vapours Ainiil these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funeral... | |
 | South American missionary society - 1863 - 318 pages
...involuntarily muttered to myself some lines of Longfellow's, only to find they had lost their significance : 1 Let us be patient ; these 'severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; For oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this -dark disguise.' " But to return to El Carmen.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, There is no Death ! What... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...And mournings for the dead : The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not he comforted ! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dinsty through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taoers,... | |
 | Thornley Smith - Bible stories, English - 1855 - 350 pages
...history of the youthful Hebrew, and put your confidence in the God of Joseph. " Let us be patient! those severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But...this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mist and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...looked reproachfully on his distrust, and said, " Aaron, may it be well with you 1" ANXIETY AND JOY. " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." LONGFELLOW. GEIITIIUDE continued to act in the same courageous way. The men repeated their endeavours... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...dying, And wailing 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. — LONGFELLOW. You will, no doubt, think this a singularly inappropriate opening to the history of... | |
 | 1855 - 250 pages
...rune with pious resignation, lie will doubtless derive some consolation from the following lines : Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this daik disguise. We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may uot wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...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 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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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 May... 
