...thoughts of happy and rejoicing creatures over whom the dark but as yet unfelt doom has already broken. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath stilled the life that...

...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught he...

...grief which these eufold Is given in outline and no more. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,1 That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be...

...clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath still'd the life that...

...comforter represents to the survivor that it is the common and inevitable lot for the old to pass away. One writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That 'Loss...common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. Eeal unselfish sympathy will usually engender tact, even in the blunt and unrefined when they stand...

...Demipho is purposely made to talk gravely, we may compare Tennyson's beautiful turn of this idea : " That loss is common would not make My own less bitter...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break." (In Memoriam, VI.) Quicquid praeter spem eveniat omne id deputare esse in lucro. Ge. O Phaedria, incredibile...

...clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath stilled the life that...

...clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss...bitter, rather more : Too common! Never morning wore ^o evening, but some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, Who pledgest now thy gallant son;...

...preserved her from touching on any of the commonplace (and most wearisome) topics of consolation. " That loss is common, would not make My own less bitter...common ; never morning wore To evening, but some heart would break." Certainly, I think it is one of the greatest proofs of the selfishness of human nature,...

...imputed to the loss of memory.— Dr. King's Anecdotes. FROM "IN MEMORIAM."— BY ALFRED TENNYSON. ONE writes, that " other friends remain" That " Loss is common to the race," And common is the common place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less...