 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...forgiveness for expressing sorrow, and entertaining the wish, as told in the first four lines ?— " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear. Which mourns thy exit from a world like this; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the realms of bliss." *... | |
 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...village epitaph, speaking so feelingly, though - in simple verse, the hopes of the mourner : — " Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear, Which 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... | |
 | Caroline Ogilvy- Grant (countess of Seafield.) - 1885 - 122 pages
...into the vault, I sighed to think how long it might be ere I beheld her glorified spirit in heaven. " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, Which mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the realms of bliss."... | |
 | William Winters - Churchwardens' accounts - 1885 - 250 pages
...H. s. Mrs Sarah Braddock wife of John Braddock of this parish dep. 5 Nov. 1834 aged 70. Accept sweet shade, the tributary tear Which mourns thy exit from a world like this, Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the realm of bliss. HS... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...graciously declared that all things shall work together for good to them that love him. .' Forgive the tributary tear, Which mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the climes of bliss."... | |
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Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, Which mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the realms of bliss. 