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" There is no Death ! what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 152
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 27

New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...part of man—and on his lines we Kew Church people especially prefer to dwell —viz.:— " There is no death! what seems so is transition; This life...of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call death." Finally, let us be careful not to suppress, or ridicule, even unintentionally, but rather encourage,...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1851 - 592 pages
...see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There Is no...breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead— the child of our affection— But gone unto that school Where...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1877 - 506 pages
...On Sunday evening, December 16th, he exchanged earth's sufferings for heaven's sweet rest. " There is no death ! What seems SO is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elyaian, Whose portal •we call death." BY DR. UNDERWOOD. AT the death and burial of our friends,...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists...vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! what seems so is transition...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 24

American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps. There...breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school...
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The Church

1868
...; these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise : But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. And though at times, impetuous with emotion, And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves,...
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The Biblical inquirer

322 pages
...Thomas Hood, are in some parts very beautiful. Our readers will thank us for two brief extracts. ' There is no death ! — what seems so is transition ; This...the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.'— LONGFELLOW. ' " To part no more " — they home met now to part no more. 'Yesterday morning my dear,...
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Annals of the Iowa Masonry, Volume 24, Part 2

Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1915 - 666 pages
...revered and honored brethren. That, consistent with our Masonic faith and teaching, we declare there is no death. What seems so is transition. This life...breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portals we call death. " 'N'o one hears the door that opens. When they pass beyond our enll, Soft ns...
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The Literary World, Volume 7

Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...correspondent must have had in mind the stanza of Longfellow's " Resignation," which reads, — " There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call death." — " J. О. Я." Botlnn, writes : " Will you kindly inform me, if possible, through the columns of...
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Echoes of Infant Voices

M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad,...portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of oar affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ...
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