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“AS OF OLD.”
When His great love, Who maketh all things new,
Shall set us, one day, at each other's side,
And bid us look, glad hearted, happy-eyed,
Into each other's face,—O Dear and True,
Will all our past have perished, joy and rue,
And we go hand in hand, beatified,
And think no more of what did here betide?—
Will it be so, my dear, for me and you?
Shall set us, one day, at each other's side,
And bid us look, glad hearted, happy-eyed,
Into each other's face,—O Dear and True,
Will all our past have perished, joy and rue,
And we go hand in hand, beatified,
And think no more of what did here betide?—
Will it be so, my dear, for me and you?
We know not; safe within His secret breast
From questioning eyes He keeps the future rolled;
But if He will to make us fair and clean,
Nor slay us with the cleansing flame, our gold
He sure can purge until it bear His test,
And bid us keep;—for what has been has been.
From questioning eyes He keeps the future rolled;
But if He will to make us fair and clean,
Nor slay us with the cleansing flame, our gold
He sure can purge until it bear His test,
And bid us keep;—for what has been has been.
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