Farewell ! thou vase of splendour,
I need thy light no more;
No brilliance canst thou render
The world to which I soar.
Nor sun nor moonbeam brightens
Those regions with a ray,
But God Himself enlightens
Their one eternal day.
Farewell! sweet Nature, waving
With fruits and flowerets fair,
Of thee but little craving
Of what thou well canst spare.
Only an earthly pillow
To bear my death-cold head,
And the turf and drooping willow
To deck my lowly bed.
The world where I am going
Has fairer fruits than thine,
Life-rivers ever flowing,
And skies that ever shine.
Farewell! each dearest union,
That bless’d my earthly hours;
We yet shall hold communion
In amaranthine bowers.
The love that seems forsaken,
When friends in death depart,
In Heaven again shall waken,
And repossess the heart.
The harps of Heaven steal o’er me,
I see the jasper wall,
Jesus who pass’d before me,
And God the Judge of all.
So sang the parting spirit,
While round flow’d many a tear,
Then spread her wings to inherit
Her throne in yonder sphere.
(James Edmeston)
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