. The world's speaker, reciter and entertainer for home, school, church and platform; recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc. .. . HAVE IT, JUST THE THING 1 WILL DO A pose indicating self RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND DIDACTIC 251 They loved—but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned—but the heart of the haughtyis cold; They grieved—but no wail from their slum-ber will come; They joyed—but the tongue of their glad-ness is dumb. They died—ay, they died ; and we thingsthat are now That walk on the turf that lies on theirbrow, And make in their dwellings a transientabode, Mee
. The world's speaker, reciter and entertainer for home, school, church and platform; recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc. .. . HAVE IT, JUST THE THING 1 WILL DO A pose indicating self RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND DIDACTIC 251 They loved—but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned—but the heart of the haughtyis cold; They grieved—but no wail from their slum-ber will come; They joyed—but the tongue of their glad-ness is dumb. They died—ay, they died ; and we thingsthat are now That walk on the turf that lies on theirbrow, And make in their dwellings a transientabode, Meet the changes they met on their pilgrim-age road. Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,Are mingled together in sunshine and rain ;And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge,Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye, tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud :Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? THE GLORIES OF THE LIFE BEYOND. I do not expect, the moment I drop thisbody, to mount up, glowing like a star,into the presence of God, with all thefullness of perfec
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