 | Religious poetry - 1863 - 220 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. 82 Resignation. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 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. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Anne J. Robertson - 1863 - 374 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We sco 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." CHAPTER LXIII. ANNA UNDERTAKES A JOURNEY. ANNA came openly among the household of Ravenshill... | |
 | C. G. Rowe - 1863 - 130 pages
...interpose and deliver. CHAPTER VIII. THE CLOUDS DISPEESED. " 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." THE weather had been unusually stormy for the time of year, ever since William Dawlish left... | |
 | John Cumming - 1863 - 340 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. " And though at times, impteuous with emotion, And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart... | |
 | Pulchérie Money - 1863 - 476 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... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 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... | |
 | James Spence - Christianity - 1863 - 300 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. " Thus the disciples mistook their Lord for some terrible phantom ; nor were they quieted and... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 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... | |
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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... 
