 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...in simple verse, the hopes of the mourner : — " Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear, Which mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the...have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'liag scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...breath went out, went up, " like zephyrs from the deep." His spirit " returned to the God that gave it." ''Forgive, blest shade: the tributary tear, That mourns...from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would hare kept thee here, And 8t°yed thy progresi to the realms of bliss." rst the cross was stamped upon... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 228 pages
...the inscriptions on the graves, not omitting that with the followjng lines : — • Forgive, bleas'd shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from...Forgive the wish. that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'ling ssenes of night, No more a... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...came out into the churchyard, and liked them so well that she learned them." FORGIVC, blest shade 1 the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world...Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seau or bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night ; No more... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - France - 1856 - 234 pages
...and liked them so well that she learned them." These fine verses have been set to music in England. Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear That mourns...have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night; No more a tenant, pent in mortal clay,... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...cling for ever to Thy breast In perfect rest ! JOHTT KEBLE. Jfargtbe, BIest Sfjate, tfje Ertbutarg blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit...Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, No more... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...may'st thou obtain like precious faith To smile in anguish, and rejoice in death." By Kirke White :— "Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns...have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the scat of bliss. No more confln'd to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay... | |
 | John Angell James - 1858 - 212 pages
...heaven. Think jfhim not as in the grave, but as in glory. Say in the language of that beautiful epitaph, Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear, That mourns...Forgive the wish, that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grovelling scenes of night, No more... | |
 | John Angell James - 1858 - 220 pages
...heaven. Think jfhim not as in the grave, but as iu glory. Say in the language of that beautiful epitaph, Forgive, blest shade .' the tributary tear, That mourns...Forgive the wish, that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grovelling scenes of night, No more... | |
 | William Elder - Arctic regions - 1858 - 456 pages
..."Solo" composed by Dr. Calcott was sung by Prof. T. Bishop, with striking effect, as follows:— " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns...world like this; Forgive the wish that would have kept theo here And stay'd thy progress to the seat of bliss. " No more confined to grovelling scenes of... | |
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Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant... 
