2.
“It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know
that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him.”
Great earnest of the time when, cleansed from sin,
The Saints shall rise with bodies glorified,
Like half-transparent veils to flesh allied,
Yet changed; when those affections which have been
Growing into the soul, and laid therein
By fiery trials, shall no longer hide,
But on the outward features shall abide,
Like fervid emanations from within,
Which mould the breathing form and character,
And impress of the soul. O vision fair,
That meets not human eye or human thought,
But sets our dull imaginings at nought,
When these our earthly frames, divinely wrought
And purified, with Christ Himself appear!
