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... Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 1941844Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...More than all things else to love me, And is now a samt in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair... | |
| John Bawtree Harvey - 1865 - 202 pages
...holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore — Folded their pale hands so meekly — Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and... | |
| Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...Heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
| Our life - 1865 - 234 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in miue. And she sits and... | |
| Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Conies that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 460 pages
...the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! 20 And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth...saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep 25 Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, And she sits and gazes at me With... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 236 pages
...from this youthful companionship to the later memories of " Footsteps of Angels." And with them that being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. That she helped him directly as well as indirectly is plain from the fact that in his Bowdoin lectures,... | |
| 1900 - 544 pages
...of age, and in the exquisite " Evening Shadows," which he then wrote, his chief association is : " And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth...heaven. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes she, like a shape divine ; Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she... | |
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