 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these eartbly 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 life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...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 tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. " There is no death ! What seems so is transition j This life of mortal breath, Is but a suburb... | |
 | John Cumming - Christian life - 1854 - 322 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this 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 lamps." " Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake : for theirs is the kingdom... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1854 - 204 pages
...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, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | 1856 - 678 pages
...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour* ; 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 transitions ; This life of mortal brenth Is but a suburb... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...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, May be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! What seems so in transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...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, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Sacred poetry - 1854 - 268 pages
...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, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. i We see but dimly through the mists and vapon 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 life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Bereavement - 1854 - 292 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal... | |
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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 vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers... 
