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~baib b£ ~llbt 'brl$htbtl.IN this dim world of clouding cares,
We nrely know, till wilder'd eyes
See white wings le88ening up the skit!s,
The angels with us unawares.And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death!
Shall light thy dark up like a star.
A beacon Kindling from afl\r
Our light of love, and fainting faith.Through tears it gleams perpt~tually,
And glitters through the thickeat glooms,
Till the ete;rDAl morning comes
To light us o'er the jasper sea.With our best bnncb in tendere.at leaf
We've strewn the way our Lord doth come;
And, ready for the harvest home,
Hia reapers bind our ripest sheaf.Our beautiful bird of light hath fted:
Awhile she sat with folded wings-
Sang round us a few hoverings-
Tben straightway into glory sped.And white-wing'd angel11 nurture her;
With heaven's white radiance robed and crown'd,
And all love's purple glory round,
She summers on the hills or myrrh.Through childhood's mornin~-land, serene
She walk'd betwixt ua twam, like love ;
While, in a robe of light abovt>,
He1• better angel walk'd unseen.Till life's highway broke bleak and wild;
Then, lest bel' starry garments trail
In mil'e, heart bleed
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and cqura,ge fail,
The ungel'a arms caugnt up the child.Her wave oflife bath backward roll'd
To the great ocean ; on wboee shore
We wander up and down, to store
Some treuurea of the times of old :