 The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human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 - English poetry - 1860 - 420 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.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 - English poetry - 1860 - 414 pages
...play'd ? —It' from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead are like the stare by day ; —Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct,...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1860 - 808 pages
...struck me in looking over a new publication of Montgomery's that morning. The first was : " The dead ore like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye,...— they hold their way In glory through the sky." Lord H. did not much like them. In the first place he said, " they begged the qnestion ; " but surely... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1861 - 444 pages
...shade, At noon, in infancy she play'd? — If from the oak no answer coine, 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.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... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...done; Praise be thy new employ; And while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy. MONTGOMERY. The dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from...the sky; Spirits, from bondage thus set free, Vanish amid immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. MONTGOMERY.... | |
 | John Kirk - 1861 - 78 pages
...thought that we shall see his face no more, but the grave is not his home. In his own beautiful words, The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from...extinct ; they hold their way In glory through the sky. His memory still lives and lingers in the town of his adoption. It has evoked from the various Sunday... | |
 | A. S - 1861 - 254 pages
...childhood, youth, and age, Brightening with maturity. " THE dead are like the stars by day. Unseen to mort 1 eye But not extinct, they hold their way . In glory through the sky."— Jium HutlTeullEuV. I. THE dead are like some faded flowers That leave a perfume sweet ; Deep-rooted... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...going out of that sweet light In which we had our being. . /. Wilson. D EAD— Immortality of the. Tie dead are like the stars, by day Withdrawn from mortal...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : í pirita from bondage thus set free, Vanish amidst immensity. Where human thought, like human sight,... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1863 - 1030 pages
...where the balmy breezes know no storm, the clear sunshine no cloud, and the sea of glory no ruffle. " The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from...human sight Fails to pursue their trackless flight" Although our Sister is missed in the church, and by those who felt that her love was entwined around... | |
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pages
...wilt !" And, moreover, as they think upon those once with them and now gone, they may remember, — " The dead are like the stars, by day Withdrawn from...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight." Mr. Manly must be the last name I mention. He is si type of a class of men, not a numerous one, which... | |
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