 | John William Marsh - Missionaries - 1857 - 444 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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 1824 pages
...resignation and peace. Let us conclude with a few verses of lofty precepts and tender consolation : — " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly thro* the mist and vapours, And these earthly damps; What seem to as but funeral Upers May be heaven's... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1857 - 1070 pages
...own daughter. CHAPTER XX. " Lot us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arlse, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the inists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, Hay be heaven's... | |
 | John Cumming - 1858 - 628 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...damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May he heaven's distant lamps. ' There is no death. What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. t Whittier. 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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour-. Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 282 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...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid...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... 
