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POETRY

... the influence of a mother's love On Childhood's dawning heart. The earnest eyes, That droop all tenderly above the brow Of infant innocence, pour from their deeps The sympathetic softness of their gaze; And the young heart wakes to it like a flower Opening ...

DEATH AND BURIAL OF AN ODD FELLOW

... in the following order ,— Conductor. Six bearers. Corpse. Six bearers. Two of deceased's sons. Ten brothers. Four Iriends. Infant daughter of the deceased's led by two Past Grands. Guardians. G.M. and supporters. N.G. aud supporters. V.G. and supportess ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1843
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH THE MEDIATOR By Mrs. George Lennox Conyngham. Death isa mighty mediator. Life Aboundeth with the elements ..

... outbalance right, And justice crouch to might. Earth’s life is wrapt in selfishness: but Death, Who stays the giant’s as the infant’s breath,— Death the all tranquillizing,—brings a balm To heal deep wounds: he hath a spell to calm Revenge :—the living war ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1836
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BIRTHS & DEATHS for the WESTERN DISTRICT

... number of deaths and births with the causes of disease and decease in a very plain and practical shape. Quarterly Table of Mortality, Shewing the Average Quarterly Deaths, and the number °f deaths registered in the Summer Quarter ending the 60th dag September ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1842
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 684 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POSTSCRIPT

... sense, and symptoms also of good omen for the peace of Europe. According to accounts from Alexandria, of the 17th ult., the mortality amongst the oxen still prevailed throughout Egypt. Of those imported from Sennar more than 5,000 had died. The plague likewise ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1843
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

i;ld poetry. NATURE'S TEACHINGS. Go forth with nature —she hath many voices. Speaking deep lessons the human ..

... heeds the raven's cry. Go trace the waters of the sparkling rill, From out their rocky birthplace wildly gushing, Trickling in infant beauty from the hill. Or in the sun with diamond lustre flushing: Now gliding onward for a while serene, Now twisted roots ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1842
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 434 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

—~ ««oH ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON. Thy beauty hath passed—in the cerement of death Enfolded, the remnants purity lie

... The dread mandate is sped, and the penalty paid. The parent we honour, the infant we cherish, The loved one who lightened our pilgrimage here, In the pestilent coil of mortality perish. And alike ends our honour and love in the bier. Yet why mourn if to ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1842
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 464 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Corner. WHAT MANT yin Pstf- Cold r*n the stream the Alps' craggy Silently flowing for ever away? Ciear was its

... minute— Many are splendidly dancing along; What istbere not emblematical it? Myriads suddenly burst the throng. This busy Mortal's the fate thy glory. This the end being like thine— And, like the air from the bubbles before ye, Bursteth thy soul from ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1830
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 429 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SONG. (From Memoirs and Remains of Charles Wolfe.') If I had thought thou could'st have died, I might not

... ') If I had thought thou could'st have died, I might not weep tor thee ; r I forgot, when thy side, '1 hat thou could'st mortal be; It never through my mind had past, The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou should'st ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1843
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 387 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OH ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON. beauty hath passed—in the cerement of death Enfolded, the remnants of purity lie The

... The dread mandate is sped, and the penalty paid. The parent we honour, the infant we cherish, The loved one who lightened our pilgrimage here, In tbe pestilent coil mortality perish. And alike ends our honour and love in the bier. Yet why mourn if to ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1842
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 464 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POETRY

... enrapturd May. The Butterfly, on phnions bright; Launct'd in full splendour ozi the day. tneonscious of a mnother's care, No infant wretchedue- she knew But, as she felt the vernal air, At once to full perfection grew. Her slender form, ethereal, light. ...

Deaths

... between two parties who disputed about the identity of a of mortality, from which the vital spark had long departed. It appeared that a short time before the wife of a man was about to off this mortal coil,” and requested that she might be buried in a cemetry ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1837
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 3 | Tags: none