TIME, DEATH, AND ETERNITY.
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Though Death o'er thy children hath long held his sway,When elements melt, and thou passest away,From voice of the Angel of God the Most HighShall come forth the edict that Death too shall die."Forever," the word that abideth with me:I saw no beginning, no end shall I see. And happy, O Earth! shall thy children e'er beWho treasures for heaven confide unto me;For never, O Earth! in the realms of my sphereShall breathe there a sigh, or fall there a tear,But joy in deep rapturous tides shall e'er rollFrom presence of God o'er the glorified soul.Then human thought, freed from the fetters of Time,Endued with new strength, and with powers sublime,Shall myst'ries unveil, and new truths shall explore,The Infinite Being knew only before.Should back unto chaos the worlds wing their flight,In darkness unfathomed to quench all their light;Again in the measureless regions of spaceMaterial forms should hold never a place,O'er wreck of the universe still would the soul,While ages eternal should over it roll,Triumphantly gaze in the consciousness sureThat long as Jehovah the soul shall endure.
