Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.The Building of the Ship, Lines 375-376.What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven’s distant lamps.Resignation, St. 4.- The Rainy Day, originally in Bentley’s Miscellany (Dec. 1841) p. 626
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.The Golden Legend (1851)- A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
