This heavenly beam can bid it joy that earthly ties are o’er.
For oh! our covenant Lord, who ne’er his sacred promise breaks,
Has sweetly said, when all the world, the changing world, forsakes,
He will be all the world to us; then freely may the heart
Resign the fondly coffered bliss that clogs the immortal part,
(In holy trust ’twill all be ours when earth has passed away,)
And calmly wait the unclouded dawn of an eternal day,
Conscious while God is near, earth’s best and purest joy is given,
For ’tis His holy presence makes the perfect bliss of Heaven.
1829. E. P. K.