| S. G. Lathrop - 1881 - 422 pages
...friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled...them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them when I need them. I would rather have a bare coffin without a flower, and a funeral without an eulogy,... | |
| S. G. Lathrop - 1881 - 424 pages
...cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. The tilings you mean to say when they are gone, say before they...them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them when I need them. I would rather have a bare coffin without a flower, and a funeral without an eulogy,... | |
| John Wells Thatcher - 412 pages
...sweeten their homes before thcyleavo them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend...would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them, that L may be refreshed and chet- rvd by them while 1 need them.... | |
| 1884 - 586 pages
...affection, which they mean to break over my dead body I would rather bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without (lowers, a funeral without an eulogy, then a life without the sweetness of love... | |
| 1887 - 510 pages
...their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alahaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend...would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I... | |
| 1888 - 832 pages
...affection, which they mean to break over my dead body J would rather bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without flowers, a funeral without an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love... | |
| 1878 - 444 pages
...The things you mean to say before they are gone, say before they go. The flow238 THE GUARDIAN: ere you mean to send for their coffins, send to brighten...open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them when I need them. I would rather have a bare coffin without a flower, and a funeral without a eulogy... | |
| Friends' Religious And Moral Almanac - 1893 - 260 pages
...sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend...would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered -by them while I need them.... | |
| James Russell Miller - 1893 - 236 pages
...thousands of other weary, plodding toilers — that if my friends have vases laid away, filled with the perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would far rather they would bring them out along my toilsome days and open them, when I can enjoy them and... | |
| John James McLaurin - 1896 - 430 pages
...their homes before they leave them. If my friends ha1e alabaster-boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend...body, I would rather they would bring them out in my wea1 y and troubled hours and open them, that ! may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them.... | |
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