 They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But love...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 5301842Full view - About this book
 | Amory Dwight Mayo - 1845 - 166 pages
...Earth, They perish where they have their birth i But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame forever burneth ; From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth*...earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppressed, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in Heaven its perfect rest : It soweth here with... | |
 | Amory Dwight Mayo - 1846 - 172 pages
...They perish where they have their birth) But I-ove ls indestructible. Its holy flame forever burneth t From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. Too oft...earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppressed, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in Heaven its perfect resit It soweth here with... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1846 - 52 pages
...principle of its development, and leads it on from perfection to perfection, from glory to glory. " Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returueth." No man can be possessed of this spirit without making religion the highest and last element... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But love is indestructible : Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven retumeth. Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppress'd, It here is tried... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth. But Love is indestructible ; Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came,...deceived, at times opprest, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in heaven its perfect rest ; It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of Love... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1847 - 170 pages
...vanity : But love is indestructible; It* holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came — to henven returneth ; Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppressed — It here is tried, and purified. And hath in heaven its perfect rest."— Southty. THERE... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...when they have their birth. PIECES FOtt HEADING AND DECLAMATION. 'J23 But love ia indestructible, — Its holy flame for ever burneth, — From heaven it came, to heaven returnetb ; Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times opprest ; It here is tried... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 pages
...these passions, ля of earth, They peritih where they have their birth. But love is indestructible ; Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven refurnetn ; Too oft on earth a troubled gueet, At times deceived, at timed oppressed, It here 1« tried... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...of the earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flamo for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...deceived, at times opprest, It here is tried and purified, Then hath in Heaven its perfect rest : It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of Love... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1849 - 614 pages
...place where love shall be eternal ? Yes, " love is indestructible ; Its holy flame for ever bumeth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth ; Too oft...earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppress•d, It here is tried and purified, And hath in heaven its perfect rest." It is ignorance and... | |
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