 Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word...  The World's Famous Orations - Page 83edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1883 - 92 pages
...absolute rest. If too late to bleed, rely upon the hypodermic administration of morphine. You may fail, but "in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Inject it cautiously, slowly, watching the effect upon her breathing ; slow it gradually ; bring it... | |
 | 1879 - 640 pages
...to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, 'I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas and tears and fears,... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1890 - 668 pages
...to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Then, again, in his remarks at the grave of a child of a friend, he says, " We do not know whether... | |
 | James Baird McClure - Rationalism - 1879 - 192 pages
...voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there conies no word; but in the night of death hope sees ,t star and listening love can he*ar the rustle of a...death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, " I am better now." Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas and tears and fears... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 284 pages
...to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of deatli hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Spiritualism - 1880 - 408 pages
...to look beyond the heights ; we cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry ; from the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, ' I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of 3oubts and dogmas, and tears and fears,... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1880 - 340 pages
...to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of awing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1882 - 174 pages
...to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, "I am better now." Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas and tears and fears... | |
 | John E. Cutler - 1881 - 196 pages
...look beyond the heights. We cry aloud : our only answer is The mocking echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead There comes...Hope sees a star ; and, listening, love can hear The soothing rustle of angelic wing ! " PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. 'Tis past the hour of noon, and swift... | |
 | Morgan E. Dowling - Church - 1882 - 190 pages
...Ingersoll has said while standing in the awful silence of death, at his brother's grave, that u From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." And again: " The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with... | |
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