That happiness is only found, great God, in serving Thee.
1828. E. P. K.
CONSOLATION IN BEREAVEMENT.
’Tis not when we look on the dreamless dead,
And feel that the spirit forever has fled;
’Tis not when we’re called to the voiceless tomb
By the loved who were culled in their brightest bloom;
’Tis not when the grave’s last rite is o’er,
And we know they are gone to return no more;