Poems (Edwards)/Lines Written in Georgie's Album
LINES WRITTEN IN GEORGIE'S ALBUM.
The world is all before thee now, Its joys, its hopes, its fears,And life for thee may beam with smiles, Or be baptized in tears.
I know, dear girl, that wealth and power, Cannot true peace impart,I know that these are not the things, To satisfy the heart.
I know that earth-born joys decay, While yet we call them ours,I know that pleasures pass away. Like Autumn's fading flowers.
And oh! I ask that deeper joys, May round thy spirit flow,Than earth with all its gilded pomp And pleasures can bestow.
Oh! may the purest blessings rest Upon thy youthful head,And may religion's holiest light, Around thy path be shed.
May peace and love along thy way, In glowing radiance shine,May goodness, gentleness, and truth, Around thee brightly twine,
'Till thou art loved and blest by all, The aged and the young,'Till praises on thy cherished name, Shall fall from every tongue.
Farewell! we may not meet again On life's tempestuous sea,This world has many a different path, And ours must different be.
But while I live, my fondest prayer, Through life shall ever be,That joys, the purest and the best, May always rest on thee.
And if we meet no more on earth, O! may we meet above,Where pain and parting all are o'er, And life is lost in love.