 The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human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
 | 1854 - 440 pages
...purify our minds from all sublunary desires, and to endear a purer and better world to our hearts. The dead are like the stars, by day Withdrawn from mortal eye, Yet holding unperceived their way Through the unclouded sky. By them, through holy hope and love, We... | |
 | Frederick James Jobson - 1855 - 298 pages
...so we may desire to be with Christ, but shrink ^^* J when we remember we must die to be with Him." ' THE dead are like the stars by day : Withdrawn from...sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight." JAMES MONTGOMERY. IT is a true saying, that "persons die as they live." Our Mother's life had been one of... | |
 | Commerce - 1856 - 794 pages
...the cherished treasures of all our hearts. Of such as him we may say with the poet — " The dead aro like the stars by day. Withdrawn from mortal eye ;...— they hold their way In glory through the sky.*' Wo are indebted to Mr. Everett for a corrected copy of his tasteful and feeling tribute : — MR. CHAIRMAN... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 578 pages
...supporting rod, Then breathes his soul into its rest, The bosom of his God, COWPEn. 1126. (',11. 1. THE dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye, Yet holding unperceived their way Through the unclouded sky. 2. By them, through holy hope and love,... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Bible - 1856 - 934 pages
...faith's supporting rod, Then breathes his soul into its rest, The bosom of his God. COWPER. 1126. CM 1. THE dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye, Yet holding unperceived their way Through the unclouded sky. 2. By them, through holy hope and love,... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - American wit and humor - 1857 - 362 pages
...uncertainty. The dead, no doubt, are like stars by day, withdrawn from mortal eye, and yet not extinct, for they hold their way in glory through the sky — spirits from bondage set fre» and left to vanish amid immensity where human sight like human thought fails to pursue their... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 640 pages
...the cherished treasures of all our hearts. Of such as him we may say with the poet — " The dead arc like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; But not extinct — they hold their sway In glory through the sky." SPEECH OF THE HON. EDWARD EVERETT. MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN : —... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 614 pages
...will be among the cherished treasures of all our hearts. Of such as him we may say with the poet— " The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; But not extinct—they hold their sway In glory through the sky. 1 ' SPEECH OF THE HON. EDWARD EVERETT. MR.... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Robinson - Epitaphs - 1859 - 220 pages
...the fragrance of a flower, That leaves upon the vernal wind Sweetness we ne'er again may find. 631. The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky. 632. But now his radiant course is run, For Matthew's course was bright ; His soul was like the glorious... | |
 | Miriam Fletcher - American fiction - 1859 - 398 pages
...eyes. Then low but fervent tones of thanksgiving and prayer ascended for the one so soon to be — " Like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, to hold her way In glory through the sky." Earnest petitions followed for those who must still tread... | |
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