 | James Carson Webster, Erastus Dow Palmer - Art - 1983 - 340 pages
...Alas! how full of change this life is; and, as the poet Whimer says in speaking of the departed ones: "How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on. " Again he says: "Yet love will dream, and faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just) That... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Snow-bound; a Winter Idyl 28 O Time and Change! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day. d to earth, shall rise again; Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, Ah, brother! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces whereupon That... | |
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Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still; Look where we may, the wide earth o'er Those lighted faces smile no more. 
