...benedictions 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...not dead,— the child of our affection,— But gone into that school, Where she no longer needs our poor protection And Christ himself doth rule. In that...

...earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death I What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe...

...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...breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call Death. THE NEW Vj.i K A8TCR, Lfl-OIl f-0 riiJ>EN FOU.NO/.TlO.'.S She is not dead, —...

...through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May l>e heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems...but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we (tall Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she...

...know besides, it is but giving Over of a game that must be lost." Besides, as the poet thinks, " There is no Death ! what seems so is transition. This life...of the life Elysian, Whose Portal we call Death." Pindar says, " Sweet is both the end and the commencement of human affairs made when there is a divine...

...benedictions 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...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe...

...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe...

...tended, But one dead lamb Is there ! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, But has a vacant chair. She is not dead— the child of our affection —...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. Not as a child shall we again behold her, For when, with raptures wild. In our embraces we again enfold...

...chair would be found by their own fireside ? We cannot tell ; we can still hear her repeating to us, " She is not dead ! — the child of our affection,...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. " In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation —...

...OLD MAN. follow her. And then we shall meet to part no more ! CONCLUSION. BY FANNY CALROW. " There is no death ! — what seems so is transition ; This...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." LONGFELLOW. 0 part no more"— they have met now to part no more. Yesterday morning my dear, kind uncle...