The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human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
| William Crook (the younger.) - 1863 - 76 pages
...SOCIETY, RICHARD YOAKLEY, AGENT. JOHN ROBERTSON, ORAFTON STREET. •f • THE dead are like the stare, by day Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct,...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight." MONTGOMERY. Manas Ward <£• Co., Printers, Belfast and Dublin. TO THE MEMBERS IN THE DEOGHEDA CIRCUIT,... | |
| Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1863 - 506 pages
...them the blessed assurance that the object of their affection is not lost, but only gone before. " The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from...extinct ; they hold their way In glory through the sky." The death of our departed sister was improved to an immense congregation, on Sunday, June 12th, in... | |
| David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...consolation that his noble life is not extinct, and that hi* pure light is not quenched in gloom. " The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; Hut not extinct, they hold thuir way In glory through the sky. Spirits from bondage thus set free... | |
| Theophilus Smith (sculptor.) - 1864 - 188 pages
...God, For this we know, that his Redeemer liveth. LI. The faithful dead, like stars by day, Are hid from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky. ©rtgtnal anti ML Asleep in Jesus ! time nor space Debars this precious " hiding place"; On Indian... | |
| James Montgomery - 1865 - 354 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.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, And oh ! unless those eyes deceive, I may,... | |
| 1865 - 354 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 The Dead are like the stars by day ; — Withdrawn...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.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, And oh ! unless those eyes deceive, I may,... | |
| David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...with song the hearth, — Alas! for love, \ithou wert all, And nought beyond on earth ! THE DEAD. [HE dead are like the stars by day Withdrawn from mortal...human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. MONTGOMERY. I KNOW THOU HAST GONE. KNOW thou hast gone to the home of thy rest, Then why should my... | |
| Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson - Hymns, English - 1865 - 540 pages
...In glory yet to come ; 0 idle grief, O foolish tears, When God doth call us home ! 625. THE DEAD. CM 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... | |
| Bible Christians - 1865 - 602 pages
...growing wealth, pinching and bitter poverty and want are increasing also. MEMOIR OF STEPHEN SANDERS. " The dead are like the stars by day Withdrawn from mortal eye, Yet not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky. Spirits from bondage thus set free,... | |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - Consolation - 1865 - 284 pages
...in solitude, and amid the multitude, think cheerfully and speak lovingly of the dead." — — — " The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye, Tet holding unperceired their way Through the unclouded sky. By them, through holy hope and low. We... | |
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