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" And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air... "
Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic - Page 417
by Beautiful poetry - 1854
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...those bright realm* of air; Year after year her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair. 1 Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken The bond...that our remembrance, though unspoken, May reach her wh ;то she lives. 1 Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when, with rapture wild, To our...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair....raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1851 - 592 pages
...Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair....as a child shall we again behold her, For when with rapture wild, In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child; But a fair maiden in her...
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The Broken Bud: Or, Reminiscences of a Bereaved Mother

Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair. Thus i'j we walk with her, and keep unbroken The bond which...she lives. Not as a child shall we again behold her : O i For when with rapture wild, In our embraces, we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But...
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The Parlour magazine of the literature of all nations, Volume 2

1851 - 448 pages
...bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair. IX. Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken, The bond...remembrance, though unspoken, May reach her where she lives I x. Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when, with raptures wild, In our embraces we again...
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Volume 8

John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...thus he detected the dross and threw it aside. THE MOTHER'S CRY. BY THE AUTHOB. OF "THE BBOKEN BUD." "Not as a child shall we again behold her; For when, with rapture wild, In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child, But a fair maiden In her...
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Thoughts on the Death of Little Children

Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 172 pages
...dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair....her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; v And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face. And though at times impetuous...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...pollution, Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ! Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair....embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; Hut a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...She lives, whom we call dead. Year after year, her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more lair. Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken The bond...as a child shall we again behold her, For when with rapture wild, In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden in her...
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Voices from the Silent Land: Or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted

Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 pages
...dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year her tender steps pursuing, Behold her grown more fair....when, with raptures wild, In our embraces we again infold her, She will not be a child. But a fair maiden in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial...
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