...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel. for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay be Heaven's distant...

...chair ! Tlie air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour* ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant...

...chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly thro' the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be...

...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. i We see but dimly through the mists and vapon Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal...

...peaceable fruits of righteousness ; and therefore he can sing what the poet felt and well expressed, " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant...

...the midst of them. Such is another page of the blessed life ! CHAPTER X. THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS. " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant...

...must number her with her dear father, as a saint in glory ! " AN UNWELCOME CALL. 85 CHAPTER XVIII. " Let us be patient, these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing,...

...to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachacl for her children crying Will not »e comforted! Let us be patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But of i "in r celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and...

...involuntarily muttered to myself some lines of Longfellow's, only to find they had lost their significance : 1 Let us be patient ; these 'severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; For oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this -dark disguise.' " But to return to El Carmen....

...of farewells to the dying And mournings for the dead; The heart of Kachel, for her children ciying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not frora the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see bu...