 The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1861841Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - Greenland - 1819 - 284 pages
...shade, At noon, in infancy she play'd ; —If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that round, In bliss, or woe, there is a place, Where... | |
 | James Montgomery - Greenland - 1819 - 272 pages
...At noon , in infancy she play'd ; — If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that round, In bliss, or woe, there is a place, Where... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pages
...At noon, in infancy she play'd ; —If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. ,' The Dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...amidst immensity, Where human thought, like human si¿ht, Fails to pursue their trackless night. 4 Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...swell beyond the reasonable bounds of probability, and fearfully invade those illimitable regions, " ' Where human thought, like human sight. Fails to pursue their trackless flight. " On the day of their departure, they pursued the bear, which took a north-western course, for at least... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. TJie Dead are like the stars by day; — Witlidrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their...Vanish amidst immensity, Where human thought, like Jmman sight. Fails to pursue their trackless ßight. Somewhere within created space. Could 1 explore... | |
 | 1821 - 456 pages
...shade, At noon, in infancy she play'd ; — If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that round, In bliss, or woe, there is a place, Where... | |
 | Walter Blunt, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1822 - 504 pages
...Of her all oracles are dumb. The dead are like the start by day ; — Withdrawn from mortal eye, Bnt not extinct, they hold their way In glory through...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that round, In bliss or woe there is a place, Where... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...on the evening of May 1st, 1876, she.fell asleep in Jesus, in the sixty-seventh year of her age. ' The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; Yet holding, uuperceived, their way In heaven's unclouded sky. * * * * ' For death its sacred seal... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...shade, At noon in infancy she play'd : — If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that round, In bliss or woe there is a place, Where... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1824 - 158 pages
...still flow around the palace she once irradiated, now reflect her tomb, i 4 COUNTESS OF BESBOROUGH. The Dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...extinct, they hold their way, In glory through the sky. THE remains of Henrietta Francis, Countess of Besborough, second daughter of John Earl Spencer, and... | |
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