Part 78 (1/2)
And I am blest!
This is Thy high behest: Thou, here and _everywhere_.
Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Husband
”Joy for thee, happy friend! thy bark is past [10]
The dangerous sea, and safely moored at last- Beyond rough foam.
Soft gales celestial, in sweet music bore- Spirit emanc.i.p.ate for this far sh.o.r.e- Thee to thy home. [15]
”You've travelled long, and far from mortal joys, To Soul's diviner sense, that spurns such toys, Brave wrestler, lone.
Now see thy ever-self; Life never fled; Man is not mortal, never of the dead: [20]
The dark unknown.
”When hope soared high, and joy was eagle-plumed, Thy pinions drooped; the flesh was weak, and doomed To pa.s.s away.
But faith triumphant round thy death-couch shed [25]
Majestic forms; and radiant glory sped The dawning day.
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”Intensely grand and glorious life's sphere,- [1]
Beyond the shadow, infinite appear Life, Love divine,- Where mortal yearnings come not, sighs are stilled, And home and peace and hearts are found and filled, [5]
Thine, ever thine.
”Bearest thou no tidings from our loved on earth, The toiler tireless for Truth's new birth All-unbeguiled?
Our joy is gathered from her parting sigh: [10]
This hour looks on her heart with pitying eye,- What of my child?”
”When, severed by death's dream, I woke to Life, She deemed I died, and could not know the strife At first to fill [15]
That waking with a love that steady turns To G.o.d; a hope that ever upward yearns, Bowed to His will.
”Years had pa.s.sed o'er thy broken household band, When angels beckoned me to this bright land, [20]
With thee to meet.
She that has wept o'er thee, kissed my cold brow, Rears the sad marble to our memory now, In lone retreat.
”By the remembrance of her loyal life, [25]
And parting prayer, I only know my wife, Thy child, shall come- Where farewells cloud not o'er our ransomed rest- Hither to reap, with all the crowned and blest, Of bliss the sum. [30]
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”When Love's rapt sense the heart-strings gently sweep, [1]