 Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant...  Some Account of the Parish of St. Giles, Norwich - Seite 177von Sir Peter Eade - 1906 - 599 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bible Christians - 1877 - 704 Seiten
...in eternal glory. We sorrow, although we know that he rejoiceth. We weep, but, weeping, say:— « " Forgive blest shade the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined... | |
 | E. Clere - 1877 - 338 Seiten
...wish of the dying mother was gratified. The words which had been selected by the songstress were — " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. " No more confined... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 Seiten
...found, or by whom written. They are attributed to the Rev. J. Gill, and are on a monument at Brading. Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ! Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1877 - 234 Seiten
...an invocation of saints when she wrote the exquisite epitaph beginning,—* " Forgive, blest shade I the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here. And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss." And is it... | |
 | Samuel Abbott Green - 1878 - 318 Seiten
...JtacrtV To the memory of MRS. LYDIA, wife of Dea. 2'imothy Stone, who died Sept. 24, 1825, ^Et. 52 years. Forgive, blest shade, the tributary [tear], , That mourns thy exit from a world like th"' Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss.... | |
 | Freemasons Scotland - 1879 - 208 Seiten
...up to the oratory, from which he pronounces the oration. Elegy — Dr. CALCOTT — Choir, 4 voices. Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd... | |
 | Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1879 - 248 Seiten
...music in 1794, by Dr. Calcott, the celebrated composer, when residing at St. John's, near Ryde : " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. " No more confined... | |
 | Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1879 - 322 Seiten
...music in 1794, by Dr. Calcott, the celebrated composer, when residing at St. John's, near Ryde : " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. " No more confined... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1883 - 176 Seiten
...voice repeating them : the idea is exceedingly gratifying to me. EPITAPH ON MRS. AB ' Forgive, blessed shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here ; And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 390 Seiten
...composed by him "at St. John's, near Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, Thursday, September 24th, 1794")— " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined... | |
| |
