hose might
From the throne there reigneth,
With grace to all in that city stay;
And life and bliss doth His glance convey!

And room for all, who, in faith, are hoping,
For all is room in the Promised Land!
And, like, when fig-trees their buds are oping
You know that summer is near at hand;
Thus, when the chill
Of your evening broaches,
You feel, with thrill,
That the _friend_ approaches,
To lead you homeward, where joys excel,
United ever with Him to dwell.

When day be cooling, and shadows cover,
With sombre curtains, your hills and dales,
Then, to release you, He near shall hover,
Whose power, great as his love, prevails.
The eye-lids, laded,
A while are closing, ...
The work-tools, jaded,
Benumbed reposing, ...
Another while--and a new career,
In splendor, shall to your view appear!

And earth is new, as is heaven's portal;
The son of heaven and earth is new,
And misses not, since become immortal,
The narrow homestead, whence he withdrew.
It ceased existing,
It ceased attracting--
But faith persisting,
But virtue acting!
You have, before you, the lot prepared,
By abject spirits not seen or shared.

Then wiped away are all tears forever,
All wounds removed by the healing hand....
Again, midst corpses and biers, I never,
With torch inverted and quenched shall stand
In darkness rife;--
But, the torch upturning,
By flames of life
I restore its burning--
And then, Seraphic, with you unite
In songs of praise at the Throne of Light.

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BRIEF EXPLANATORY NOTES.

PAGE 17, last line; _i. e._--AIR, WATER, EARTH, FIRE, _the four
elements_, in which, according to the ancient philosophers, all exists,
and of which the whole world is composed.

PAGE 24, "ALEXANDERS" _i. e._--Such as Alexander III, "the Great," king
of Macedonia, etc., the greatest of Military Conquerors; born 356 B. C.;
died, 323 B. C.

"NEROS" _i. e._--Such as Nero, Lucius Domitius, Roman Emperor; born 37;
died 68; probably the most prominent type known of wickedness and
cruelty, and, nevertheless, a coward.

PAGE 27, "CREST AND FOIL;" emblematic of Knighthood or Nobility.

PAGE 29, "BROTHER" "EQUAL," _i. e._--Neighbor, as exemplified by Chr