So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained... The North British review - Page 3981852Full view - About this book
| Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...history and in nature, and receive from each an accession to his power. ' • So lire, that whoa thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... | |
| American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of... | |
| Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...before he had attained his majority. He concludes Thanatopen with the lines : ' Live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where eachshall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 514 pages
...caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take HU chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,...couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." In proof of Bryant's versatility, we subjoin a few stanzas of a much lighter kind, which we And in the... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 520 pages
...the pale realms of shade, where each shall take I ' i - chapber in the silent halls of death, Tbotfgo not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but sustain'd and soothed i'-y an unfaltering trust, approach flu- grave Like one who wraps the drapery... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 598 pages
...years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow...caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the grey-headed man — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow...caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... | |
| Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain 'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...years, matron, and maid, And the sweet babe, and the grey-headed man, — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow...caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... | |
| George Putnam - Funeral sermons - 1834 - 452 pages
...matron and maid, — And the sweet babe, — and the greyheaded man, — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow...caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in die silent Halls of Death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged... | |
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