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O, ’tis one scene of parting here, Love’s watchword is farewell! And almost starts the following tear, Ere dried the last that fell! ’Tis but to feel that one most dear Is needful to the heart, And straight a voice is muttering near, Imperious, Ye must part! But happiest he, whose gifted eye Above this world can see, And those diviner realms descry, Where partings cannot be; Who, with One changeless Friend on high, Life’s various path has trod, And soars to meet, beyond the sky, The ransomed and their God.
O, ’tis one scene of parting here, Love’s watchword is farewell! And almost starts the following tear, Ere dried the last that fell! ’Tis but to feel that one most dear Is needful to the heart, And straight a voice is muttering near, Imperious, Ye must part! But happiest he, whose gifted eye Above this world can see, And those diviner realms descry, Where partings cannot be; Who, with One changeless Friend on high, Life’s various path has trod, And soars to meet, beyond the sky, The ransomed and their God.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Townshend (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 381 · printed citation: Townshend · subject: MEETING
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