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Home and Heaven
With the same letter heaven and home begin,And the words dwell together in the mind;
For they who would a home in heaven win,
Must first a heaven in home begin to find.
Be happy here, yet with a humble soul,
That looks for perfect happiness in heaven;
For what thou hast is earnest of the whole,
Which to the faithful shall at last be given.
As once the patriarch, in vision blest,
Saw the swift angels hastening to and fro;
And the lone spot, whereon he lay to rest,
Became to him the gate of heaven below;
So may to thee, when life itself is done,
Thy home on earth and heaven above be one.
Poem No. 848; January 1864
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