 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
 | English essays - 1859 - 726 pages
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 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...And mournings for the dead : The heart of Eachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Stanza n. 1, 2. Everywhere are bewailed the (lying (raoritura cohors) and the dead ; And the ceaseless... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying. Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps.... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...has not healed the breach or closed the wound. Our "fire-side has one vacant chair;" but " Let us bo patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Young friends ! how eloquent is her early grave ! Our Jane was 1 6 years of age when she died. How... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ? Let ns he patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground...vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! what seems so is transition... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 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 the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...bring her out of her present darkness, into a most marvellous light. THE TWO GUARDIANS. CHAPTER XX. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions That from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! what seems so is transition ; This... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 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 vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.... | |
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