With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come
Where in the shadow of a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb!


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!