 | [Poems by Cary in] The poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary |  |
LIGHT AND LOVE.
Light waits for us in heaven: Inspiring thought!
That when the darkness all is overpast,
The beauty which the lamb of God has bought
Shall flow about our savéd souls at last,
And wrap them from all night-time and all woe:
The spirit and the word assure us so.
That when the darkness all is overpast,
The beauty which the lamb of God has bought
Shall flow about our savéd souls at last,
And wrap them from all night-time and all woe:
The spirit and the word assure us so.
Love lives for us in heaven: Oh, not so sweet
Is the May dew which mountain flowers inclose
Nor golden raining of the winnowed wheat,
Nor blushing out of the brown earth, of rose,
Or whitest lily, as, beyond time's wars,
The silvery rising of these two twin stars!
Is the May dew which mountain flowers inclose
Nor golden raining of the winnowed wheat,
Nor blushing out of the brown earth, of rose,
Or whitest lily, as, beyond time's wars,
The silvery rising of these two twin stars!
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