RECONCILED.

We meet again beyond the barren past,

Beyond the pride, the sorrows and the tears;

And yearnings leave the strife and hate of years

To flood our souls with perfect peace at last!

Our hearts forget the wrong so deep and vast,

The wounding words and all the cruel woe,

Till joy is all our bounding bosoms know,

And life is glad with happiness at last.

Love, deathless and forgiving, crowns with bays