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If I have served my God with faithful soul,
Using the talent which He gave in trust,
So that His truth shone clear from earthly rust,
And some faint whisper of the songs that roll
From heaven’s fixed centre to its topmost pole,
Found a rude echo in my vocal dust;–
If this has been, I know that God is just,
To crown the brow that bore His human dole;
And in some state removed from what we see,
With all life’s bars and hindrances undone,
Our meeting souls, like meeting streams shall run;
And my reward for duties past shall be
A heaven pervaded by a sense of thee,
This mortal love made an immortal one.
(George Henry Boker)
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