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By the Fireside.
Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly dampsWhat seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breathIs but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
She is not dead,—the child of our affection,— But gone unto that schoolWhere she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule.
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