The Early Dead; Or, Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetrical and Scriptual, on the Death of ChildrenHenry J. Howland, 1857 - 204 pages |
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... fears , Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept , And sleeping when she died . For when the morn came , dim and sad , And chill with early showers , Her quiet eyelids closed - she had Another morn than ours ...
... fears , Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept , And sleeping when she died . For when the morn came , dim and sad , And chill with early showers , Her quiet eyelids closed - she had Another morn than ours ...
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... fears , The day of woe , the watchful night , For all her sorrow , all her tears , An overpayment of delight ? " T WAS BUT A BABE . I asked them why the verdant turf was riven From its young rooting ; and with silent lip They pointed to ...
... fears , The day of woe , the watchful night , For all her sorrow , all her tears , An overpayment of delight ? " T WAS BUT A BABE . I asked them why the verdant turf was riven From its young rooting ; and with silent lip They pointed to ...
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... fear , In the mystical fall of the year . He darkened our doors , and the hours , Once opening like myrtles in bloom , Were blighted , as if they were flowers That droop in the shade of the tomb , That wither and die in its gloom ...
... fear , In the mystical fall of the year . He darkened our doors , and the hours , Once opening like myrtles in bloom , Were blighted , as if they were flowers That droop in the shade of the tomb , That wither and die in its gloom ...
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... fear , God's angels have crowned some new comers , They smile from their beautiful sphere , They call me , the morning is near ! BEREAVEMENT AND CONSOLATION . It is not in the parting hour , when those we fondly love Have breathed to us ...
... fear , God's angels have crowned some new comers , They smile from their beautiful sphere , They call me , the morning is near ! BEREAVEMENT AND CONSOLATION . It is not in the parting hour , when those we fondly love Have breathed to us ...
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... fears are laid aside , If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! LONGFELLOW . THE HEAVENLY LAND . There is a land where beauty will not fade , Nor sorrow dim the eye ; Where true hearts will not shrink or be dismayed ...
... fears are laid aside , If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! LONGFELLOW . THE HEAVENLY LAND . There is a land where beauty will not fade , Nor sorrow dim the eye ; Where true hearts will not shrink or be dismayed ...
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