97. JOY IN A DYING HOUR.
To change for good alone my mingled state
In this brief life, and what I have to hold
By God's firm word while endless years unfold,—
This wakens joy; and this will be my fate,
When soon shall come my final, worldly date.—
Now hear I this—"O, chosen one, behold
Wonders of love divine, by Christ unroll'd;—
Come, share our bliss unmeasurably great!"—