Truth teaches higher hopes, and better things,
And o'er the mind a lasting solace brings.
Oh! that the soul on Heaven were ever bent,
And all its feelings thitherward were sent!
Then would our visions from the world arise,
Clear as the sun, and radiant as the skies:
Visions of light and love that ne'er decay,
No strifes to scare, no terrors to dismay;
But peace, unchanging as the Christian's faith—
Peace in our life, untroubled hope in death!