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Wysłany: Czw 11:28, 17 Lut 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published aaaadfim |
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as in mockery wrote
Of treasur'd hopes
more fleeting than their own.
--But mays't thou from these sterner teachings gain
A higher seat
where no o'ershadowing cloud
Veileth the purpose of God's discipline.
And mid their glad embrace
--the gone before
--
The re-united ne'er to part
--behold
The teaching of no bitter precept lost
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Nor tear-sown seed fail of its harvest crown.
[1] Mrs. Eliza S. Robinson
the only child of Governor and Mrs. Trumbull
whose early life had been a scene
of singularly unbroken felicity
was appointed to a fearful contrast of rapid and severe bereavements. Her
noble husband
Lucius F. Robinson
Esq.
in the midst of his days and usefulness
was suddenly
smitten
--immediately after
their beautiful child
Annie Seymour
--then her distinguished relative
Chief
Justice Storrs
who from her birth had regarded her with a fatherly love; and then both her parents
side by
side
almost hand in hand
passed to the tomb.
With unsurpassed calmness
she met this whelming tide of sorrow
girding herself to her maternal duties
in
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