Hereafter an eternity! Dread thought,

Eternity! Eternity! My soul

Is lost in that vast subject, and I shrink

Appalled from the unmeasured time to come.

No more I ask to know its hidden space;

’Twill soon unfold to me, and I shall dwell

Forever in its changeless realm; no more

To feel emotions known on earth, or think

As now I think, or live as now I live;

’Till then, “the mysteries of fate are hid,”