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LAUS PATRIÆ CELESTIS.


LIFE now so brief, in its Joys and its Tears,
Will find Retribution in oncoming Years;
O blest Retribution! a Moment of Strife,
And Time will be merged in perennial Life;
O blest Retribution! which dawns on our Sight,

From thy full flowing Glories, fair Mansion of Light!