ONE NIGHT.
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Lay her within the conquered grave away,
And cast out all your troubles, doubts, and fears.
Why weep for one who, in the courts of heaven,
Shall dwell through all eternity's bright years?
And cast out all your troubles, doubts, and fears.
Why weep for one who, in the courts of heaven,
Shall dwell through all eternity's bright years?
Call her not dead, but say an angel's kiss
Has pressed her lips with tenderness and love,—
Won her pure spirit to the home of bliss,
Where with the saved her happy feet shall rove!
What better fate than to be with her God,
And with his angels in the realms above?
Has pressed her lips with tenderness and love,—
Won her pure spirit to the home of bliss,
Where with the saved her happy feet shall rove!
What better fate than to be with her God,
And with his angels in the realms above?
Ay, turn away! She is no more of earth;
But her example, deathless as the stars,
Has fallen on you at her glad new birth,
Fallen adown through the sky's purple bars.
Accept the trust, and be not sad for her
Whose palm-crowned forehead not a shadow mars.
But her example, deathless as the stars,
Has fallen on you at her glad new birth,
Fallen adown through the sky's purple bars.
Accept the trust, and be not sad for her
Whose palm-crowned forehead not a shadow mars.
ONE NIGHT.
I wandered down the moonlit woods
One calm October night,—
The very poplar-leaves hung still,
The zephyrs were so light.
One calm October night,—
The very poplar-leaves hung still,
The zephyrs were so light.
The pink-tinged radiance of the sky,
Love-flushed the blazing stars,
Until my soul leaped up to break
These mortal prison bars.
Love-flushed the blazing stars,
Until my soul leaped up to break
These mortal prison bars.
