“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
