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" 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... "
Poems - Page 342
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...And mournings for the dead : The heart of Eachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Stanza n. 1, 2. Everywhere are bewailed the (lying (raoritura cohors) and the dead ; And the ceaseless...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1851 - 592 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying. Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There Is no death ! what seems so is transition...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1853 - 588 pages
...has not healed the breach or closed the wound. Our "fire-side has one vacant chair;" but " Let us bo patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Young friends ! how eloquent is her early grave ! Our Jane was 1 6 years of age when she died. How...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

1856 - 1026 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ? Let ns he patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...
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The Church

1868
...waves and billows pass over us, and we are made to possess wearisome nights and troublesome days : " Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours : Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 24

1850 - 642 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 the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

1852 - 788 pages
...bring her out of her present darkness, into a most marvellous light. THE TWO GUARDIANS. CHAPTER XX. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 21

1849 - 742 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...vapors ; 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...
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Volumes 4-5

John Seely Hart - 1849 - 934 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...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mista and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seera to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive ..., Volumes 3-4; Volumes 9-10

1856 - 1268 pages
...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions That from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant...
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