 | Roswell Park - 1857 - 338 halaman
...will be our meeting, In that bright eternal home. MILWAUKEE, Christmas, 1855. HERE AND HEREAFTER. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their celestial... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 halaman
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 halaman
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their celestial... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 halaman
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.'" which, though its head towers above those of its companions when they... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 halaman
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 104 halaman
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it. If what Waller says be true, that " ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made," then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age, to the shaking... | |
 | 1860 - 634 halaman
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness that Age descries. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 halaman
...certain to be loft. Clouds of affe&ion from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weaknefs, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | 1861 - 356 halaman
...my failing flesh and heart; O could I catch a smile from thee, And drop into eternity I C. WESLEY. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1861 - 426 halaman
...to be lost : Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which Age descries : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness — wiser— men become As they draw near to their... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold... 
