...lighten the shadows that press heavily upon me every now and then, as I think and write. CHAPTER IX. " Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW. THERE are some days which, in their excess of brightness, from break of morning to the last twilight...

...to the dying And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not he comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the...

...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant...

...resignation and peace. Let us conclude with a few verses of lofty precepts and tender consolation : — " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly thro* the mist and vapours, And these earthly damps; What seem to as but funeral Upers May be heaven's...

...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! 353 Let us bo patient 1 These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...

...own daughter. CHAPTER XX. " Lot us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arlse, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the inists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, Hay be heaven's...

...The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. t Whittier. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs...

...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs...

...for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. f Whittier. Let us be patient I these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs...

...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead : The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's...