That sight may children see and parents show!

If not—yet earthly chains of metal true,

By love and duty wrought and fixed below,

Elsewhere will shine, transformed, celestial-new;

Will shine of gold, whose essence, heavenly bright,

No doubt-damps tarnish, worldly passions fray;

Gold into gold there mirrored, light in light,

Shall gleam in glories of a deathless day.

1845