...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...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...

...And mournings for the dead : The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's...

...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad,...

...tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benediction.} Assume this dark disguise. She is not dead — the child of our affection ; But gone...

...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 he heaven's distant lamps. ' There is no death. What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath...

...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; Tiiis life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call death. She...

...blessing in disguise. Do you remember those beautiful lines of Longfellow's you read me the other day? ' Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps.' " "Ah, Ethel, poetry is very beautiful when we are happy ! and it is all very well, too, to read of...

...dying And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted. Let us be patient!" these severe afflictions Not from...vapours, 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...

...love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose !" Rom. viii. 28. "Let us be patieut ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise-;...vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps !" But what judgment are we to form now of Mordecai,...

...served only to make the shock at length more dreadful and disastrous ? She did uot see all the way. " Let us be patient, these severe afflictions, Not from...mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." Be patient then, and leave the...