And then the thought came to me of the one
Who left me when so youthful and so fair,
Who in the light of Heaven’s unsetting sun
Lives with the angels there.
I little thought, ere those sweet smiles were gone,
That she so soon must heed the angel’s call;
But all the way He led her safely on
Who marks the sparrow’s fall.
And some day, when life’s billows cease to roar,
And here no more my weary feet shall roam,
Our souls shall be conjoined forevermore
In Heaven’s eternal home.
IDLENESS.
Make some good use of ev’ry space of time,
In idleness are sown the seeds of crime;
Man’s erring mind, allured by passions strong,
Begins pursuing here the path of wrong;
And heedless of the peril just ahead,
Step after step proceeds with fearless tread,
Till ruin comes with overwhelming power—
The bitter fate of many an idle hour!