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 May... The Book of Elegant Extracts - Page 100by Book - 1868 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Wharton - 1859 - 396 pages
...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. * World of Mind, p. 316. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...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... | |
| 1859 - 300 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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 vapours Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...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...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly thro' the mist and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be... | |
| Rose Foot - 1859 - 344 pages
...nor could be comforted." " The flowers He gathers are for a wreath divine." — Rose's Offering. " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." — LONGFELLOW. IT was evening, and a calm, delicious evening it was, at Sea View. The day had been... | |
| 1910 - 490 pages
...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...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pages
...Will not be comforted0 ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,0 ic 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 15 May be heaven's distant... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 pages
...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 the ground arise, lint oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists... | |
| Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pages
...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...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.... | |
| James Newton Matthews - 1911 - 360 pages
...persistence Draws back the starry curtain of the skies And leads an angel to me down the distance. "Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." They told me she was dead. They did not know — For, every evening as the twilight closes, I hear... | |
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