Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

"Take him and welcome!" the sur- Where a splendor has just departed

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Sung at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, There's a hush of death about me,

S. C. 1867.

[blocks in formation]

And a whisper, "He is gone!"

ISAAC WATTS.

INSIGNIFICANT EXISTENCE.

THERE are a number of us creep Into this world, to eat and sleep; And know no reason why we're born, But only to consume the corn,

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Heaven deepening within heaven,

like the skies

THE LAST FLOWERS.

Of autumn nights without a shadow Dost thou remember that autumnal

stained,

I stood as one whom some strange dream enthralls:

For, far away, in some lost life divine,

Some land which every glorious dream recalls,

A spirit looked on me with eyes like thine.

E'en now, though death has veiled their starry light,

And closed their lids in his relentless night

As some strange dream, remembered in a dream,

Again I see in sleep their tender beam;

Unfading hopes their cloudless azure fill, Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still.

II.

If thy sad heart, pining for human love,

In its earth solitude grew dark with fear,

Lest the high sun of heaven' itseif should prove Powerless to save from that phantasmal sphere

Wherein thy spirit wandered - if the flowers

That pressed around thy feet seemed but to bloom

In lone Gethsemanes, through starless hours,

When all who loved had left thee to thy doom!

Oh, yet believe that in that hollow vale

Where thy soul lingers, waiting to attain

So much of Heaven's sweet grace as shall avail

To lift its burden of remorseful pain,

My soul shall meet thee, and its

heaven forego

Till God's great love on both, one hope, one Heaven, bestow.

day When by the Seekonk's lovely wave we stood,

And marked the languor of repose

that lay,

Softer than sleep, on valley, wave, and wood?

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]
« ZurückWeiter »