In the calm grave shall find at last repose,
Thou’lt beam as fair as though I ne’er had been.
1824. E. P. K.
RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.
Oh! say, shall those ties, now so sacred and dear,
That with rainbow hues tint all our wanderings here,
Be regarded no more in that heavenly sphere
Whose portal’s the grave?
When, “washed and forgiven,” our spirits ascend