...! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists...lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; Tiiis life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call death. She...

...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amidst these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...life of mortal breath, Is but a suburb of the life elysium, Whose portal we call death." A WEEK afterwards, Florence and I accompanied my father to Sunnybrow...

...patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists...sad funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps.' " "Ah, Ethel, poetry is very beautiful when we are happy ! and it is all very well, too, to read of...

...disguise. We see but dimly thro' the mist and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps. There...life of Mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysiau, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead—the child of our affection— But gone unto...

...nothing could ever quench again the new light of life, that had arisen for her. 218 CHAPTER IX. 1 There is no death — what seems so is transition ; This...of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call death." LONGFELLOW. MAXWELL kept his promise, and chose a fresh route home ; but it must be confessed that...

...departed one ! Whose all of life, a rosy ray, Blushed into duwn and passed away. MRS. HEUA.NS. 690. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. LONGFELLOW. 691. We call him blessed whom the Lord hath blest And made a blessing ;- — long to shed...

...dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, hovvsoe'er defended, But hath one vacant chair. " There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." We have seen first of all that God is- holy ; secondly, that he leaves not sin without its retribution...

...teachings of nature, professed their firm belief in a life beyond death. " There U no death ! W liât seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death." Life ever springs from death — life in new forms perhaps, but ever life. Death is no end in itself;...

...patient!" these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists...vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death! what seems so is transition...

...! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise-; But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise ; We see but dimly through the...vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps !" But what judgment are we to form now of Mordecai,...