 | University of Bombay - 1912 - 398 pàgines
...affliction to forget ; but this wonnd wo consider it a duty to keep open, this afflition we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother who would...a blossom from her arms, though every recollection ia a pang ? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pàgines
...recalls, And slowly seeks his castle halls. CLXIL— THE GRAVE. FBOM IRVING. forget the infant that has perished like a blossom from her arms, though every...pang? Where is the child that would willingly forget a tender parent, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of +agony, would forget... | |
 | 1911 - 494 pàgines
...this wound we consider it a duty to keep open. This affliction we cherish, and brood over in solitude. Who, even in the hour of agony, would forget the friend over whom he mourns? No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes,... | |
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in... 
