 | Children's poetry - 1861 - 316 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, 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 of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 714 pages
...social qualities. Those who knew him best mourn the loss of a true friend and genial companion. "There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE SCOTT responded for the court, as follows :... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Religious poetry, American - 1861 - 364 pages
...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 of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | Children in literature - 1861 - 236 pages
...these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, 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 of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. RESIGNATION. 85 She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
 | Mourning mother - 1861 - 102 pages
...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 of the life elysiaii, Whose portal we call Death. , She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1916 - 620 pages
...body. The mystery of life is not the narrow span between the cradle and the grave. There is no death 1 What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. EC STEVENSON, Rockwell City. THOMAS C. GILPIN; 1832-1916 Major... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...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 life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death . She is not dead- -the child of our affection- But gone unto that... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central Pennsylvania - Lutheran Church - 1906 - 1064 pages
...died and rose again and that those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him. Alleluia ! " There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death." Respectfully submitted, WDE SCOTT, C. LUTHER McCONNELL, MS CRESSMAN.... | |
 | Michael Wallis - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 532 pages
...wrapped in his overcoat and grief, read the inscriptions chiseled on the front of the mausoleum: "There is no death! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian whose portal we call death." — Longfellow "Some evening when the sky is gold I'll follow... | |
 | Arthur M. Coon - Religion - 1996 - 56 pages
...its destiny below. " And two thousand years afterward, Longfellow expressed the same thought: "There is no death: what seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death " And many, many more. Before leaving the poets, we must not over... | |
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There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death. 
