The man of Uz, and other poems

Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)

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REV. HENRY ALBERTSON POST,

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Died at Warrensburgh, New York, November 12th, 1861, aged 26.

Read me rejoicing Psalms,
Oh dearest one, and best!
I go from war to peace,
From pain to glorious rest,

Where the bright life-tree sheds
Around its precious balms,
So, while I linger her
Read me rejoicing psalms.

And when my place I take
Amid the ransom'd throng
Who through a Saviour's love
Uplift the immortal song,

Repress the tear of grief
That washes faith away,
And brave in zeal and love
Await our meeting-day.

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Yes, let thy course below
Through all its fleeting days
In its angelic ministries
Be as a psalm of praise.

His request of his wife during the sufferings of an acute dyptheria, which suddenly separated him from an attached people, was, “Read me rejoicing Psalms.”

University of Virginia Library

REV. HENRY ALBERTSON POST,