 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...companions, and comforting associates, nothing appears but white, the token of innocence, purity, peace, and light. May you, like these Stockings, (the final...completed,) go together from the place where you were framed, to a happier state of existence, a present from earth to Heaven. Hoping that these stockings... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...companions, and comforting associates, nothing appears but white, the token of innocence, purity, peace, and light. May you, like these Stockings, (the final...completed,) go together from the place where you were framed, to a happier state of existence, a present from earth to Heaven. Hoping that these stockings... | |
 | 1886 - 800 pages
...the final narrowing off, and dropping the coil of this emblematic pair of companions and comforting associates, nothing appears but white, the token of...you, like these stockings, the final stitch being dropt, and the work completed, go together from the place where you were formed, to a happier state... | |
 | Henry Melville King - Meditations - 1914 - 300 pages
....final narrowing off, and dropping the coil of this emblematical pair of warm companions, of comforting associates, nothing appears but white, the token of innocence and peace, of purity and light; and may you, like these stockings, the final stitch being dropped and the work completed, go together... | |
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... loose ; thus may you keep on your smooth and even course, making existence one fair and consistent piece — until, together, having passed the heel, you come to the very toe of life, and here, in the final narrowing off, and dropping the coil of... 