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’Tis a blessing to live, but a greater to die, And the best of the world, is its path to the sky,— Be it gloomy or bright, for the life that He gave Let us thank Him—but blessed be God for the grave! ’Tis the end of our toil, ’tis the crown of our bliss, ’Tis the portal of happiness—aye, but for this, How hopeless were sorrow, how narrow were love, If they looked not from earth to the rapture above!
’Tis a blessing to live, but a greater to die, And the best of the world, is its path to the sky,— Be it gloomy or bright, for the life that He gave Let us thank Him—but blessed be God for the grave! ’Tis the end of our toil, ’tis the crown of our bliss, ’Tis the portal of happiness—aye, but for this, How hopeless were sorrow, how narrow were love, If they looked not from earth to the rapture above!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. K. Mitchell (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 265 · printed citation: J. K. Mitchell · subject: GRAVE—TOMB
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