 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 206by Emma Raymond Pitman - 1869 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 pages
...patient! the«c severe affliction* Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial bénédiction» Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vajx>rs ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal taper* May be Heaven's distant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 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...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death I What seems so is transition ; This... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The hcai't 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 sad, funereal tapers, May l>e heaven's distant... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Barbour - 1856 - 406 pages
...not be comforted ! — Let ns be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; Bnt oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark...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... | |
 | 1856 - 352 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...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly thro' the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 332 pages
...lighten the shadows that press heavily upon me every now and then, as I think and write. CHAPTER IX. " 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." LONGFELLOW. THERE are some days which, in their excess... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not he 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... | |
 | John William Marsh - 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...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. WHEN the last scene of this eventful history... | |
 | 1857 - 372 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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! 353 Let us bo patient 1 These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
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