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Printed at the Office of the Freemason's Magazine, 1903
 

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Page 81 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, . and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
Page 99 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 53 - To hear me ? Let me go : take back thy gift : Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all ? A soft air fans the cloud apart ; there comes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born.
Page 77 - How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies !
Page 77 - How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ! How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 273 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 264 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 273 - Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 81 - THERE is a land mine eye hath seen, In visions of enraptured thought, So bright, that all which spreads between Is with its radiant glories fraught. 2. A land, upon whose blissful shore There rests no shadow, falls no stain ; There those who meet shall part no more. And those long parted meet again.
Page 281 - ... sequestration ! The hermit, exercised in prayer and praise, And feeding daily on the hope of heaven, Is happy in his vow, and fondly cleaves To life-long singleness ; but happier far Was to your souls, and, to the thoughts of others, A thousand times more beautiful appeared, Your dual loneliness. The sacred tie Is broken ; yet why grieve ? for Time but holds His moiety in trust, till Joy shall lead To the blest world where parting is unknown.

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