 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pàgines
...Look to thy journey's end — the grave, And trust in Him whose arm can save. DM MOIR. DYING FRIENDS. OUR dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate The glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pàgines
...us, the Christian looks to a compassionate Saviour with a certainty of receiving peace and sympathy. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the wise : Our dying friends are pioneers... | |
 | Joseph Snelling - 1847 - 178 pàgines
...having taught a school there for more than fifty years. We three are all that remain of ten children. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. What saith this transportation of... | |
 | David Shepley - 1848 - 38 pàgines
...of all to become fitted by divine grace to participate in the eternal felicities of the righteous. " Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud. To damp our brainless ardours; and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the vise. ***** Smitten friends Are angels,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...? It brings us more than triple aid ; an aid To chase our thoughtlessness, fear, pride, and guilt. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours ; and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pàgines
...It brings us more than triple aid ; an aid 275 To chase our thoughtlessness, fear, pride, and guilt. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pàgines
...It brings us more than triple aid ; an aid 275 To chase our thoughtlessness, fear, pride, and guilt. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pàgines
...It biings us more than triple aid ; an aid 275 To chase our thoughtlessness, fear, pride, and guilt. Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers,... | |
 | Mary Coombs Greenleaf - 1851 - 196 pàgines
...more purpose ! " " Heard that a little boy was drowned to-day. Death meets us in every direction. ' Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors, and abate The glare of life, which often blinds the wise. For us they languish, and for us... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - 1851 - 572 pàgines
...us in mind that our turn also will soon come.* Sicknest and death, expiring agonies, pale corpses, * Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors, and abate That glare oflight which often blinds the wise. Our dymg friends are pioneers, to... | |
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Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth Our rugged pass to death ; to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence Nature... 
