Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath. Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire. The People's Magazine - Page 841834Full view - About this book
| John Dowling - Missionaries - 1847 - 322 pages
...clime Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections, transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown...for the good alone, And faith beholds the dying here Transported to that glorious sphere. And there, at length, after a separation of a few short years,... | |
| Hymns, English - 1847 - 986 pages
...affections, transient fire, > Whose sparks fly upwards and expire. — 3 There is a world above, mp Where parting is unknown ; — A long eternity of...the dying here, Translated to that glorious sphere. 4 Thus star by star declines, Till all have passed away ; $ < As morning high and higher shines, j... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - Life - 1847 - 400 pages
...none were blest. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown ; A whole eternity of love, Fonn'd for the good alone ; And faith beholds the dying here, Translated to that happier sphere. MONTGOMERY. IF men were all permitted to linger in this world until perfectly fitted... | |
| Hymns, English - 1848 - 488 pages
...clime Where life is not a breath, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upwards and expire. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown...glorious sphere. Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away : As morning high and higher shines, To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in... | |
| Theodore A. Gould - American poetry - 1848 - 154 pages
...these brief remarks, the author commits his bantling to your tender care. TA o. THE DYING CHILD. " There is a world above, Where parting is unknown —...long eternity of love, ' Formed for the good alone." With grief oppressed, a mother stands beside the sufferer's bed ; Her pale and sunken lips foretell... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...death, There surely is some blessed clime There is a world above, Where parting is unknown, — A whole eternity of love, Formed for the good alone; ( And Faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere. Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away, — As morning high and higher... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...fire, Whose sparks fly upward to expire. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown, A whole eternity of love, Formed for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here, Translated to that happier sphere. Thus star by star declines, Till all have passed away, As morning high and higher shines... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...There surely is some blessed clime, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown,...glorious sphere. Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away ; As morning high and higher shines ' To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in... | |
| 1849 - 472 pages
...life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections' transient fire, Whose sparks fly upwards and expire. EJ There is a world above, Where parting is unknown,...glorious sphere. Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away ; As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in empty... | |
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