 | 1818 - 384 pages
...returning at declining day, Beneath this sacred porch to rest am led. Here in the calm of this sequestered spot, Musing I listen to the murmuring main ; Whose...seclusion with unwilling feet, New cares to combat, and ucw sorrows imnu'ii. But why lament thy lot ? dismiss thy fears, Recal thy high original and end ;... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - Aunts - 1823 - 260 pages
...one day written inside the porch with a lead pencil ! ANNE. What were the lines about, Fanny ? FANNY. I will try if I can remember them : we all got them...; Discharge life's duties, and sustain its cares, Thou'lt find Eternal Providence thy friend. CHAPTER V. FANNV and Anne had just time to hang their wreaths... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - Jews - 1826 - 222 pages
...Where pensive thought rec urs to ages fled ; And slow returning at declining day, Beneath this lacred porch to rest am led. Here in the calm of this sequester'd...forgot, Like distant troubles in this, scene of pain. •A But I must quit the solemn still retreat, And to the busy world again return ; Leave this seclusion... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...at declining day, Beneath this sacred porch to rest am led. " Here in the calm of this sequestered spot Musing I listen to the murmuring main, Whose...distance are forgot, Like distant troubles in this world of pain. " But I must quit this solemn, atill retreat, And to the busy world again return ; Leave... | |
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I will try if I can remember them : we all got them by heart at the time. A wand'ring stranger, through Quarr's woods I stray, Where pensive thought recurs to ages fled; And slow returning at declining day, Beneath this sacred porch to rest am led. Here... 