HEAVEN LIGHTS AND HOME LIGHTS.
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Pale broken lights that close our heavenly view Caressing eve ere weeps the twilight dew, Tender ye are as love smiles shining through Life's parting hour: adieu, dark day, adieu! Ye cheer our footsteps on the wintry way, Kind hints from Heaven when earth is cold and gray. Heaven is our home; and we but wanderers through This glimmering vale: adieu, dark day, adieu! Short is our journey now, nor steep the road; Sound still our limbs and light our daily load; Chill night we leave behind, and hasten through Home's glowing door: adieu, dark day, adieu! Dear emblems, these we cherish till the last Deep nightfall on our brows the shadow cast, And we by faith see glory shining through The door of death: adieu, dark day, adieu! |
CLOUD EMBLEM.
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Beneath the vault of yonder clouds A lake of sunshine lies, The rent between those shifting shrouds Reveals it to our eyes. The glory of its amber light Clasped by an opal shore, Melts me to joy I cannot write And makes my heart adore. I feel as if the great white throne Rose dazzling there above, Nor inaccessible its zone To those that feel and love. Beneath, the elders all bow down Each in his radiant stole— Each in the lake hath cast his crown, The homage of a soul. Emblem of Heaven! sublime device! No air can thee retain: Read in the Word, the Heart, the Skies, Thee we shall meet again. |