 voices took a higher range: Once more we sang, " They do not die, Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, altho' they change" In secret regret for a thousand weaknesses; in secret vows for nobler living, it is still the true Christmas greeting,...  Texas School Journal - Page 281886Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1885 - 234 pages
...rest is meet: ' They rest,' we said, ' their sleep is sweet,' And silence follow'd, and we wept. Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang : '...Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; ' Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1889 - 200 pages
...assurance of the immortality of the soul, the !, "keen seraphic flame," and encourage each other to hope. " They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change. " Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces... | |
 | 1851 - 432 pages
...gleams out in the " Two Voices," where it is asked, " how can we prove that death is deatli : " Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang : " They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nur change to us, although they change." And a little further on we find still more confidently and... | |
 | Harrison Smith Morris - Christmas - 1891 - 276 pages
...rest is meet. " They rest," we said, " their sleep is sweet," And silence follow'd, and we wept. Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: " They...Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; " Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same Pierces... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 300 pages
...rest is meet. " They rest," we said, " their sleep is sweet,'' And silence follow'd, and we wept. Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: "They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame... | |
 | Richard D. Jones - Assassination in literature - 1891 - 152 pages
...love, Whatever fickle tongue may say." "I long to prove 3. Poems xxviii-lxxvii. The dead do not die. " They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change" ; The immortality of the soul. The Buddhist view. The Christian view: "And I... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 294 pages
...rest is meet. " They rest," we said, " their sleep is sweet," And silence follow'd, and we wept. Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: "They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 646 pages
...the resurrection of the soul from the sorrow of loss is made, and the verse lifts to the thought: Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang—"...die Nor lose their mortal sympathy Nor change to us, although they change ; " Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1894 - 554 pages
...the resurrection of the soul from the sorrow of loss is made, and the verse lifts to the thought: Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang—"...die Nor lose their mortal sympathy Nor change to us, although they change ; " Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same. Pierces... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 534 pages
...the resurrection of the soul from the sorrow of loss is made, and the verse lifts to the thought: Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang—"...die Nor lose their mortal sympathy Nor change to us, although they change ; " Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces... | |
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