 But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.  The Old, Old Story: A Novel - Page 461by Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1894 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | 1858 - 240 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...woven; And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbowed out in tears. MASSEY. But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...unsealed. Crue is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, iVhen he is sent to summon those we love, :>ut all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, )ne after other lift their frowning masks, luid we behold the seraph's face beneath, Ul radiant with... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love. But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and Sickness, Poverty and Death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death. One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory... | |
 | 1873 - 522 pages
...? 4 True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love. But all God's angels come to us disguised. Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death. One and another lift their frowning masks, And we hehold the seraph's face beneath, * • -..I. ant with... | |
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