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ETERNITY
Eternity!—the name—the very soundLies like a spell of glory on my soul;
Rapt in the visions, I may not control,
Of light too vivid! darkness too profound!
Eternity begun—the soul reborn—
Dead, yet not lost; awakening....to what?—
A sphere how beauteous—an unfading morn—
Heaven—love, joy, gain'd! earth—care and woe, forgot!
Spirits untired—a never drooping thought—
Whence flows the spring of exquisite delight;
A home! earth's brightest seats are dim as night
To the blest mansions in God's splendour wrought;
And lives for man this home? this deathless crown?—
Bow to the ground my soul in worship down!
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