another s feet at and eve should and another s voice � perchance more sweet � make music in our home that where we locked our hands and talked amid our chosen flowers the lips we pressed should be by other lips than ours � that other eyes should watch for him and other arms embrace until our image growing dim yield to another s face and this is love injured dove thy wings have many a stain but pure and white in the land of light they shall be spread again the deep true love our spirits earth never has supplied wild flowers nor till we leave the dreary grave shall we be satisfied dear dear sweet so early gone to rest i love to think of thee as one among the good and � no shadow on thy radiant eye no sorrow in thy breast dear sweet i cannot call thee dead tis true i do not see thy face nor hear thy tread yet in my heart of hearts sweet friend thou never be dead when by the solemn stream of death we parted long ago how little of the world we knew but i have lived to know how friendship how love how all things change below time changes some and absence some and envy � oh the shame of those who played together once some rise to wealth and fame while in the of poverty the rest remain the same but nothing now can come between thy heart and mine sweet friend sighs on with every image of the past thy memory will and what thou in early life thou wilt bo to the end i love to think � oh call it not a fancy wild and vain � that thou hast seen and pitied me through all these years of pain but i shall know how that has been when we two meet again my bleeding feet have left their mark wherever they have passed but now the sun is getting low the shadows fast and dear all will be well at last on the death of a friend she sleeps the quiet sleep of death and i survive but for what purpose why was not i called first to explore the regions of eternity tis known only to him whose mighty arm often the humble flower while the waving trees that stand around it are torn from their roots by the roaring tempest she has gone before me and yet how long may it bo ere i shall follow her solemn thought � well might it sink deeply into my heart and taking root there spring forth yielding fruits of repentance soon may death the great enemy of mankind add one more ghastly victim to the lifeless piles that lie wild flowers heaped together in every and on every shore and when my death shall sound will it be the signal of a spirit wailing in the regions of the lost or rejoicing in the bright of everlasting bliss it is for me and me alone to decide perhaps it is for this that my life has been spared � that i might make a firm and decided choice and shall i still draw back shall i still hesitate and remain no no for now is the accepted time and now is the day of salvation the heavenly what strange i am every day learning thank god for them they are very unpleasant to human nature but they are leading me to place less confidence in earthly love and more in heavenly i have leaned too much upon an arm of flesh and it is right i should suffer for it sweet fold me in thine arms comfort me with thy love and as soon as thou best let me go and live with thee forever all earthly hopes have passed away stay with me my stay thy blessed smile is all the light that breaks upon my dismal night i cling to thee � thou must not go oh let me tell thee every woe sighs on i and whisper in thy ready ear what friends would frown to hear distressed in body and in mind and wretched poor and blind i only care to see thy face � i only sigh for thy embrace i i faint beneath the rod it is so heavy my god spare me i cry in mercy spare � but thou still the prayer � sometimes i murmur and prefer my stubborn will to thine and doubt if love or anger deal the dreadful anguish that i feel then suddenly before me stands � with bleeding side and feet and hands � he lamb that groaned and died for me that i live such love o me and with shame i call upon thy holy name forgive me thou blessed one and let thy will not mine be done o my friend and guide take health take thou wilt beside but let me see the lovely face that makes a heaven of every place nay turn hot from my earnest prayer thy smile can save me from despair the shadows round my way stay with me my stay wild who save thee god the human heart pity me for thy rod is heavy my earthly hopes are all torn and crushed � oh may they turn heaven ward and there find support and nourishment this is father s discipline shall i murmur nay but rather rejoice that he does not leave me to myself but with me as a child � and preparing me by all these for the rest that for the people of god and sweet the rest will be after such a weary journey ho i shall fold my hands upon the bosom that shall never again be troubled and say in all sincerity i thank thee god for the sweet that was mingled in my earthly cup but more do i 