Then the new Heavens and Earth There is no more sea, or storm, or shall be Where righteousness shall dwell in deed; There shall be no more blight, nor need, Nor barrier of the sea; No sun and moon alternating, For God shall be the Light thereof; stain, In that world. Before 1886. BELOVED, yield thy time to God, for He Will make eternity thy recom pense; No sorrow more, no death, no sting, Give all thy substance for His Love, For God Who reigns is Love. Before 1886. and be Beatified past earth's experience. OH knell of a passing time, Surely the sun burns low, TIME passeth away with its pleasure and pain, Its garlands of cypress and bay, With wealth and with want, with a balm and a bane, Time passeth away. Eternity cometh to stay, Eternity stayeth to go not again; Eternity barring the way, Arresting all courses of planet or main, Arresting who plan or who pray, Arresting creation: while grand in its wane Time passeth away. Before 1893. The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him. Wilt thou laugh time away in music and mirth? Time hath days of pestilence, hath days of a sword, Hath days of hunger and thirst in desolate dearth. Till eternity wake up the multichord Thrilled harp of heaven, and breathe full its organ's girth For joy of heaven and infinite reward, Tremble, thou earth. Before 1893. TIME lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long: But ended Time will seem a little space, A little while from morn to evensong, A little while that ran a rapid race; A little while, when once Eternity Denies proportion to the other's pace. Eternity to be and be and be, Ever beginning, never ending still, Still undiminished far as thought can see; Farther than thought can see, by dint of will Strung up and strained and shooting like a star Past utmost bound of everlasting hill: TREMBLE, thou earth, at the Presence Eternity unswaddled, without bar, |