Bright as the sun their crowns celestial shine,
Yet I behold them with undazzled eye!
Oh! that yon glittering canopy of light
Would burst asunder, that I might behold
Him whom so long, not seeing, I have loved!
It parted—lo! it opened—as I stood
With clasped hands stretched towards heav’n, my eager gaze
Fixed on the widening glory!
Suddenly,
As if the burden of the flesh no more