 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 pages
...young and strong, who cherish'd Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side fell and perish'd, Weary with the march of life ! They, the holy ones...else to love me, And is now a saint in Heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1865 - 284 pages
...fell on the worn heart like dew on withering plants, — " They the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell...hands sO meekly, Spake with us on earth no more." All these shall come to us again — and O how blessed the meeting — "a family in heaven, no wanderer... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...young and strong, who cherish'd Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side fell and perish'd, Weary with the march of life ! They, the holy ones...pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more 1 And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1865 - 284 pages
...who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the inarch of life — They, the holy ones and weakly Who the...hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more." All these shall come to us again — and O how blessed the meeting — "a family in heaven, no wanderer... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more : He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side fell...else to love me. And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1896 - 408 pages
...The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side fell...else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell...else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell...ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given More than all things else to love me,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alice Mary Longfellow - 1896 - 162 pages
...Footsteps of Angels, where the poet, seeing in a reverie the forms of departed friends, sings: — "And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth...to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life 1 They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering...pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more 1 And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all tilings else to love... | |
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And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand... 
