 Tread softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll, — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2281861Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly rev'rence bow; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state, Enter — no crowds attend — Enter —... | |
 | 1853 - 632 pages
...how ! No passing bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! how great soe'er, With lowly reverence bow ! There's one in that poor shed, One by that wretched bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that pauper's roof, Lo ! Death doth trust his state ; Enter... | |
 | Frederic Rowton - 1854 - 604 pages
...reverent silence bow ! — No passing bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow : There's...poor shed One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. MRS. SOUTHEY. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state ; Enter ! — no crowds attend... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 pages
...reverent silence bow — No passing-bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger, however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's...shed — One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. At Studhow, an old Saxon hamlet, now reduced to a solitary house, two miles from Harmby, is an ancient... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 380 pages
...reverent silence bow — No passing-bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger, however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's...poor shed — One by that paltry bed, Greater than thon. At Studhow, an old Saxon hamlet, now reduced to a solitary house, two miles from Harmby, is an... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...passing bell doth toll — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With holy reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state ; Enter — no crowds attend — Enter —... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly rev'rence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state, Enter — no crowds attend — Enter —... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There 's one in that poor shed, One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state ; Enter ! no crowds attend ; Enter ! no... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There 's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter —... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...pestilence, is that men are brutalized by the common sight of the dead and the dying. II. R. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow : There's...poor shed, One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter —... | |
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