...heaven ':" Aubrev De Vere's thoughtful lines on Sorrow, are but an echo "f the divine teaching : " Count each affliction, whether light or grave God's...messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy recerre him : rise and bow, And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly...

...the press, we have received the news of Mr. Lockhart's death at Abbotsford, in December, 1854. WBR "Count each affliction, whether light or grave God's messenger sent down to thee. Bo thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow, And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission...

...there were no tears, who would know the blessedness of having them wiped away in the world to come ? " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Grief should be Like joy, — majestic, equable, sedate, Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free...

...he that hath the God of Jacob for his help ; whose hope is in the Lord his God." 133 CHAPTER XIII. ' COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...feet to lave ; Then lay before him all thou hast." Aubrey de Vere. 134 CHAPTER XIII. PHILIP was again in Ellaston early the next morning. He went straight...

...saints and martyrs raise A mighty chorus to Thy praise, World without end. Amen. THE DARK ANGEL. OUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger...rise and bow ; And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crare Permission first his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before him all thou hast ; allow No cloud...

...Engraved upon my soul ; With thee in pastures green would walk, Until I reach the goal. Anon. AFFLICTION. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...courtesy, receive him ; rise and bow, And, ere his shadow cross thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. There lay before him all thou...

...I. Page 12. The first two lines of this sonnet are borrowed from a sonnet by AUBREY DE VERB : — " Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger, sent down to thee." Page 17. " The shadow of the world." " Flee the shadow of this world." — 2 Esdras, ii. ver. 36. Page...

...drive away the darknesse so, That after that, no day shall darknesse know. TRIALS. Sirtrtj 9t Tnt. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...rise and bow, And ere His shadow pass thy threshold, cravc Permission first His heavenly feet to lave. Then lay before Him all thou hast ; allow No cloud...

...purposes of sorrow, those of another of kindred spirit agree well,— " Count each affliction, whet'-ier light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee...With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And, ere hie shadow posa tliy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before...

...Abbotsford, in December, 1854. WBR f Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality. Works, p. 388. " Count each affliction, whether light or grave God's messenger sent down to thee. Bo thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow, And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission...