 And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 1941844Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving Lincoln Adams - 1910 - 126 pages
...lighted. And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true.hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longrags for... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - 1910 - 276 pages
...transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian Whose portal we call death. " Then the forms of the departed. Enter at the open door; The beloved ones, the true-hearted Come to visit us once more." HON. BENJAMIN F. WADE, of Ohio, ex-President of... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 830 pages
...lighted, And, like phantoms, grim and tall. Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the...more. He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the rnarch of life ! They, the... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1912 - 634 pages
...lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for... | |
 | 1912 - 430 pages
...canopy above, as if to prove that they are faithfully watching over us — twinkling as we sleep. " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit us once more." Children alone represent the best of life ; they are filled... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1912 - 518 pages
...years of my life were spent, my memory recurs to the old meeting-house, with its seasons of revival. " The forms of the departed enter at the open door. The beloved, the truehearted come to visit me once more." I remember the joy with which these elders witnessed the conversion... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - 1913 - 442 pages
...slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon...departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. " He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 448 pages
...offended by a lack of originality and profundity, as in Footsteps of Angels, when in the firelit dusk, the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; 4 in the reminiscence of a walk to church , with thee, O... | |
 | 1914 - 442 pages
...parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed 10 Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, 13 By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life! They,... | |
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