Poems (Hoffman)/Within the Vale

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WITHIN THE VEIL
O friends, now entered on a new existence(Whose forms from sight have goneThat we shall know within that untrod distanceTo which our steps press on).
What waits us there? In all our imperfectionCan we step out upon that untried land?Ye come not back, who wait the resurrectionTo lead us by the hand.
Ah! through the pitfalls of this world of dangersA love has led that still hath power to guide,We entered here as lost and helpless strangers,God's endless future is not more untried.
Casting aside our earth-chained false ambition,Taking with gladness all His love hath planned,To follow where He leads, our highest missionThrough life, through death into the better land.
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