...glad when they can find the grave?" " There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together: they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there ; and the slave is delivered from his master." A third class of persons, who may be...

...the house appointed for all living. " There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there ; and the servant is free from his master." " All go unto one place; all are of the...

...bitter in soul ; who long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ? There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master*." In truth, almost all the suicides of which...

...slave mother made this vow by the graves of her parents, in the "burying-ground of the slaves," where "the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor; the servant is free from his master" (92). Jacobs added the voice of her narrator to a history of slave...

...the hury ing-ground of the slaves. " There the wicked cease from trouhling, and there the weary he at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor ; the servant is free from his master." I knelt hy the graves of my parents, and thanked God, as I had often...

...I not from the womb? (Ill, 10-11) 1 1 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be philosophic mind. (1. 185—186) 86 The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is love (Ill, 17—18) 12 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;...

...was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light? There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there,...

...be asleep; then I would be at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth . . . There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there,...

...borrowing here from Job, a poem similarly concerned with the equalizing power of death: "There the wicked cease from troubling; / And there the weary are at rest. / There the prisoners are at ease together; / They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. / The small and great are alike;...

...misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death but it comes not . . . ? There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster" (Job 3:20-21, 17-18). 138. "Thou hast...