 Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.  The Life Work of William McKinley - Page 224by Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...verses to me : — " ' Oh I why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting racteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, lie passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Bo... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1868 - 868 pages
...THE SPIEIT ОГ MORTAL BE PEOUD7* BY WILLIAM KNOX. О 'WHY should the spirit of MOR> TAL be PROUD ? Like a swift-fleeting '"METEOR, a fastflying CLOUD,...passeth from LIFE to his 'REST * in the GRAVE. The leaves of the OAK and the WILLOW * may FADE, Be scattered around, and TOGETHF.R * be LAID ; And the... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...death has made him immortal." " Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave." The above is the first verse of a hymn which was a... | |
 | Lynn (Mass.). Second Congregational Society - 1873 - 108 pages
...Knox, the Scottish poet, these well-known lines, — •'Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a breast of the wave, lie passcth from lift1 to his rest in the grave," — admirable lines, containing... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1873 - 110 pages
...Knox, the Scottish poet, these well-known lines, — uOh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a breast of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave,'' — admirable lines, containing... | |
 | Rodney Glisan - Frontier and pioneer life - 1874 - 580 pages
...unconscious that the angel of death was hovering near. " O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,...A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
 | Alfred Johnson Cotton - Dearborn County (Ind.) - 1874 - 230 pages
...THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD.' O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to rest in the grave. ! The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...sHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? O, WHY should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave. He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade. Be... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...BE PROUD? OH, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,...Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together he laid; And the young... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1876 - 360 pages
...composition, and we think wag credited to "Songs of Israel."] , why should' the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,...A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
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