 | 1853 - 618 pages
...has Longfellow said — " 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 lamps." " We now see through a glass darkly," says the Apostle, " but then face to face. Now I know in part,... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...dark disguise. ~\V>> see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, TVhat seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gons unto that school Where she no longer needs... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1854 - 154 pages
...family of Bethany. " We see but dimly thro' the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." And, yet, knowing as we do that death is but the beginning of a higher form of life, how many Christians... | |
 | 1854 - 268 pages
...Assume this 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...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Assume this 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...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pages
...see but dimly thro' the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals wo call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...Assume this 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 lamps. There is no death ! What seems so in transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the life elysian, Whose portal we call... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1854 - 292 pages
...through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
 | 1856 - 678 pages
...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour* ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transitions ; This life of mortal brenth Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May bo heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
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There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. 
