 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 bo heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - American literature - 1854 - 338 pages
...arise, But oftentimes celestial 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 heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...THE MISSIONARY; OR, SCENES IN GREENLAND.— No. XL ' 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." LONGFELLOW. TILL tjiis moment, cold, icebound Greenland had always been a home for Egede, in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 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 - 1855 - 568 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... | |
 | Thornley Smith - Bible stories, English - 1855 - 350 pages
...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mist and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." And now, if you look at the map, you may trace the path which the caravan would take. It lay... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dinsty through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taoers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 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, There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Barbour - Children - 1856 - 406 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 ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 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 l>e heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
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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... 
