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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 vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers,... "
Vestina's Martyrdom; a Story of the Catacombs - Page 206
by Emma Raymond Pitman - 1869 - 368 pages
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The colonel, by the author of 'The perils of fashion'.

Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...loaded basket in his arms, and has broken his collar-bone — you remember him — old Ben Harris." " Let us be patient : these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." But for some such feeling the intelligence thus conveyed to Junie would have been utterly overwhelming....
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The Baptist children's magazine (ed. by J.F. Winks).

Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...dying, And mourning 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. ~\V>> see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, TVhat seem to us but...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 16

1853 - 618 pages
...spiritual objects, is somewhat analogous to a November fog ? Beautifully has Longfellow said — " 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." " We now see through a glass darkly," says the Apostle,...
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The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, Volume 2

1853 - 888 pages
...meunrings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted! " Let ua be patient ! these severe afflictions, Not from the...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We sea but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid th&M earthly dnmps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from die ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists ana vapors , Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...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...
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Sacred Poetry

1854 - 268 pages
...of 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...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...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 2

Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions. Not...; 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 in transition ; This...
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The history of Mary Grove

Julia Addison - 1854 - 204 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...Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This...
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The book of celebrated poems

Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Lut us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May bo heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This...
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