 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...weeds are seen, And weepings heard where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing, to return no more, He rests in holy earth, with them that went before. Wealth, pleasure, ease, all thought of self resigned, What will not Man encounter for Mankind ! Behold... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 426 pages
...been : When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing to return no nuire, He reate in holy earth with them that went before. And such is Human Life; — so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor, and is gone Í Yet Ь» the tale, brief though it be,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...weeds are seon. And weepings heard where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before. SAMUEL ROGERS (b. 1762). OUR birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The Soul that rises with us, our... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...seen, And weeping's heard where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door j Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before, j 5. And such is Human Life ; — so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor, and is gone ! Yet is the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...weeds are seen, And weeping heard where joy has only been : When, by his children borne, and from his door, Slowly departing to return no more, He rests...with them that went before. And such is human life ; so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor and is gone ! Yet is the tale, brief though it be, as strange,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...weeds are seen, And weeping heard where joy has only been ; When, by his children borne, and from his door, Slowly departing to return no more, He rests...with them that went before. And such is human life ; so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor and is gone ! Yet is the tale, brief though it be, as strange,... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...weeds are seen, And weepings heard, where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before. SAMUEL ROGERS, 1762. A solemn yet a joyful thing is life, Which, being full of duties, is for this... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - 1883 - 250 pages
...distant hour, Another voice shall come from yonder tower ; When by his children borne, and from his door, Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before. " (Rogers, Human Life. ) A single hawthorn tree in the North which never seems to grow larger is always... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pages
...weeds are seea, And weeping heard where only joy has been ; When, by his children borne, and from his door, Slowly departing to return no more, He rests...with them that went before. And such is human life ; so gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor, and is gone ! Yet is the tale, brief though it be, as strange,... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...weeds are seen, And weepings heard where only joy hath been ; When, by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing, to return no more, He rests in holy earth, with them who went before. And such is Human Life ! So gliding on, It glimmers, like a meteor — and is gone... | |
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And weepings heard where only joy has been ; When by his children borne, and from his door Slowly departing to return no more, He rests in holy earth with them that went before. 
