Love cannot die. A lengthened chain
Binds heart and soul, and mind and will
To those we hope to meet again,
The same dear friends who love us still.
Binds heart and soul, and mind and will
To those we hope to meet again,
The same dear friends who love us still.
The Christian knows no darkened grave,
Before earth's bells their dirge could toll
Angelic palms began to wave
To welcome home a weary soul.
Before earth's bells their dirge could toll
Angelic palms began to wave
To welcome home a weary soul.
Gather sweet flowers of hope and love
And bring them with a noiseless tread,
Symbols of joys that bloom above,
To strew around your sacred dead.
And bring them with a noiseless tread,
Symbols of joys that bloom above,
To strew around your sacred dead.
And as their sweet perfumes arise
Linked with the spirit's voiceless prayer
Look up to yonder paradise
And count your loss a triumph there.
Linked with the spirit's voiceless prayer
Look up to yonder paradise
And count your loss a triumph there.
For Hope's triumphant bow has spanned
The cloud that hovers o'er the tomb,
And Faith beholds the better land
Where fairer flowers than Eden's bloom.
The cloud that hovers o'er the tomb,
And Faith beholds the better land
Where fairer flowers than Eden's bloom.
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