 Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom...  The poetical works of N.P. Willis - Seite 26von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1850 - 260 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up ; — With death so like a slumber on thee ; — And thy dark sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 322 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! "And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself... | |
 | 1872 - 514 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! "And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom ! " He covered up his face, and bowed himself... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1872 - 490 Seiten
...starry banner out ; (/.) Shout " FBEEDOM" till your lisping ones Give back the cradle shout. WHITT (pi.) "And now, farewell ! Tis hard to give thee up, With...If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May Ood have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom I" wu (si.) The sun hath set in folded... | |
 | 1872 - 710 Seiten
...drink its last deep token. [gloom, It were so sweet, amid death's gathering • To see thec, Absalom ! ing in If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. Hay God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, My lost boy,... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up ; With death so like a slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1874 - 732 Seiten
...stillness in this clustering hair 1 How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom ! And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom ! CHAPTER CXXVI. DAVID'S LONGING AFTER GOD.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer home, My lost boy, Absalom ! " He covered up his face, and bowed himself... | |
 | 1874 - 98 Seiten
...amid deathis gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom 1 « And now, farewell ! iTis hard to give thce up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ....this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, hume My erring Absalom ! Ц.^' ...,,",, „,,/,/..„., /,>.,u A , fш,f»p... | |
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