The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human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
| Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 848 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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 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 The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Kails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space Could I explore that round,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...infancy she pl.iy'd : — If from (lie oak no answer come, Of her all orarles are dumb. The Dead arc like the stars by day; — Withdrawn from mortal eye,...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky: 1 Henry Cornelia« Agrippa, of Netteiheim, counsellor to tliarlet V, Emperor of Germany,— the aulhor... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : 1 Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of Nettesheim, couiuellor to Charle« V. Emperor of Germany,— the author... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...play'd : — If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead arc like the stare by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way tn glory through the «ky : 1 Ilenr» (.'umrliiu Acrippn, of Netleshcim. counicllor to rWlea V. Kinpcmr... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 514 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : 1 Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of Nettenheim, counsellor to Charles V. Emperor of Germen?,— the author... | |
| Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...often followed in thought the flight of the spirit. But we feel that " The dead are like the glare by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the aky. Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity." They are in glory, they are with... | |
| Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...attitude, and face — One passion's changing colour mix ; One moment's flight for ages fix. * * . * * * * The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...sky : Spirits, from bondage thus set free, Vanish amid immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. * *... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 510 pages
...paid to have shown to the fiu-1 of Surrey the image of nil muuew GeraJdiue. in a sua«ica) mirror. . Spirits, from bondage thus set free, Vanish amidst...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 - 1841 - 358 pages
...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... | |
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