1 Love on! love on! but not the things that own
The fleeting beauty of a summer day;
Truth, virtue, spring from God’s eternal throne,
Nor quit the spirit when it leaves the clay:
Love them! love them!
2 Love on! love on! though death and earthly change
Bring mournful silence to a darkened home;
Still let the heart rest where no eye grows strange,
Where never falls a shadow from the tomb:
Love there! love there!