...BLANCO WHITE. T is impossible that we think rightly when we suppose that death is an evil. SOCRATES. ¥O die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. GARTH. fear the night? Why shrink from death, That phantom wan? There is nothing in heaven, or earth...

...his head. ON DEATH. Tis to the vulgar death too harsh appears; The ill we feel is only in our fears. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise through thought the insults of death defy; The fools through blessed insensibility. Tis what the guilty fear, the pious...

...breathe their momentary sweets, then go, Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. Garth. Man dies; but the immortal thoughts of man, The common feelings of humanity, Live on, the same...

...after, through death, into eternity. I am told that in his last hours he repeated Garth's lines : — To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. But this is hearsay; and it is not thus that my mind's eye beholds him. I prefer to imagine those dreamily...

...simile which follows. 9. Probably misquoted from "The Dispensary," by Samuel Garth (1670-1719) : 44 To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar." 10. this mimic show. Explain the meaning of this expression. EPITAPH ON A HARE. HERE lies, whom hound...

...life is ever swallowed up in death; 'tis merely mooring the storm-tossed craft in a harbor of refuge. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. And what is this that we term death ? 'Tis but a prolonged and unawakened dream. Sleep and death are...

...up in death; 'tis merely mooring the storm-tossed craft in a harbor of refuge. To die is lauding ou some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. And what is this that we term death ? Tis but a prolonged and unawakened dream. Sleep and death are...

...shatters it to fragments." Yes, sir; I am glad to believe, yea, know, that for the the truly good man — "To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break, nor tempests roar." Hence, I say : "Peace to the true man's ashes. Weep only for those whose days In old delusions have...

...Judgment Jut make Christ your Hope and heaven your care JAMES J. HARRIS died Nov. 2 7 1886 aged 67 years " To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break nor tempest! roar" BENJAMIN W. son of Ezekiel T. & Jane Hatch died Dec. 19 1853 JE 16 yrt 4 mos 19 ds RERECCA...

...drawn, And they waken with that light Whose day shall never sleep in night. R. CRASHAW. cxvm DEATH To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...The fools through blest insensibility. Tis what the guilty fear, the pious crave ; Sought by the wretch, and vanquish'd by the brave : It eases lovers,...