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The Last Words of St. Telemachus.
There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weepThat I should sleep?
Oh! wherefore mourn that I at last should be
At liberty?
One only grief yet lingers at my heart—
That we must part:
Part—! and perchance we never more may meet
In converse sweet!
The memory of all thy gentle ways,
Kind without praise—
And of thy loving acts, scarce seen before,
Now numbered o'er,
Weigh me to earth clinging about my heart—
And must we part?
Yet still my trust in God shall stedfast be—
By faith I see
Through the long vista of eternal years,
Free from all fears,
Thee by my side in calm unchanging rest,
For ever blest!
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