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We know not yet what life shall be, What shore beyond earth’s shore be set; What grief awaits us, or what glee, We know not yet. Still, somewhere in sweet converse met, Old friends, we say, beyond death’s sea Shall meet and greet us, nor forget Those days of yore, those years when we Were loved and true—but will death let Our eyes the longed-for vision see? We know not yet.
We know not yet what life shall be, What shore beyond earth’s shore be set; What grief awaits us, or what glee, We know not yet. Still, somewhere in sweet converse met, Old friends, we say, beyond death’s sea Shall meet and greet us, nor forget Those days of yore, those years when we Were loved and true—but will death let Our eyes the longed-for vision see? We know not yet.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Samuel Waddington (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 348 · printed citation: Samuel Waddington. · compiler notes excluded
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