Let me bask for an hour in the sun-ray
That wraps him forever in light;
Awhile tread his flowery pathway
Through bowers of unfailing delight;--
Again clasp the hands I lost sight of
In the chill mist that hung o'er the tide,
What time, with the pale, silent boatman,
I saw him away from me glide--
Out into the fathomless myst'ry,
All silent and tranquillized, glide!
Let me look in those eyes so much brighter
For the years they have gazed on the Son,--
On that pure brow grown purer and whiter
In the smile of God's glorified One;--
Let me rest for a while with closed eyelids,
On the bank of Life's river, to hear
The song he has learned since he left me,
Breathed tenderly sweet in my ear--
The song he has learned of the angels
And saved ones, breathed soft in my ear!
_Thou canst not?_--what! hast thou not entered
The gates of yon city of light?--
Not walked in the flower-bordered pathway
Of the saved ones in raiment of white?--
Never stood on the bank of Life's River,
Where gather the glorified throng?
Or glowed with emotion ecstatic
'Neath the swell of their rapturous song--
That song _he_ has learned since he left me,
The redeemed ones' exultant, _new_ song?
O Saviour, the wounded heart's Healer!
I turn from my sorrow to thee,
The gracious and tender Revealer
Of glories thy ransomed shall see!
They will pass--the dark cloud that is o'er me,
The shadows that darken my sky,
And the desolate pathway before me
Will lead to thy mansions on high;--
And with _him I shall rest in thy presence,
Forever and ever on high!
FOUNT OF BLISS
"Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
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