 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...  Our Home Beyond the Tide, and Kindred Poems - Pàgina 149editat per - 1878 - 224 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1856 - 678 pàgines
...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 vapour* ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pàgines
...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 mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 388 pàgines
...peaceable fruits of righteousness ; and therefore he can sing what the poet felt and well expressed, " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 322 pàgines
...the midst of them. Such is another page of the blessed life ! CHAPTER X. THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS. " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise...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... | |
 | Eliza Rooke - 1854 - 200 pàgines
...must number her with her dear father, as a saint in glory ! " AN UNWELCOME CALL. 85 CHAPTER XVIII. " Let us be patient, these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pàgines
...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...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. i We see but dimly through the mists and vapon Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | 1873 - 768 pàgines
...dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachacl for her children crying Will not »e comforted! Let us be patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But of i "in r celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pàgines
...her children ciying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not frora the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see bu t dimly throu gh the m ists and vapours Ainiil these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funeral... | |
 | South American missionary society - 1863 - 318 pàgines
...involuntarily muttered to myself some lines of Longfellow's, only to find they had lost their significance : 1 Let us be patient ; these 'severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; For oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this -dark disguise.' " But to return to El Carmen.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pàgines
...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...earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the... | |
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