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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MY SON'S FIRST BIRTHDAY AFTER DEATH. A good name is better than precious ointment; nncl the day of death than the day of one's birth.?Ecclesiastics vii. 1. He answered me and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide.?2 Esdras vii. 42. Oh if in the abodes of perfect bliss, To which thou wert translated suddenly, Remembrance is allowed of world like this; On me bestow that filial memory: ? Or rather, with impartial love, divide That consciousness, between thy mother here, And the nipped flower, who hoped to be thy bride: Ere summoned hence wert thou from hearts so dear.Her head is bowed, my son her heart is broke; She pines to share thy everlasting rest; While my own tears, the words of comfort choke, For her sole soothing, I would have expressed.? My son, my son, forlorn enough are we, Blasted like trees, upon storm-smitten heath; Yet gratefully, our heavenward glances see Thy brow encircled with Redemption's wreath.? Oh, supplicate, my son the angel-throng, Who celebrate with thee thy natal day; To plead for pardon, if the grief is wrong: Which over us bears such tyrannic sway.? No: name it not?let nought terrestrial jar The heavenly harmony attuned for thee; Earth, and its earthly anguish, must not mar Thy full fruition of felicity. The requiem of our untamed despair Must mingle not with music of the sky; Lest, in the lull of gladder harpings there, Thine ear should catch its mournful minstrelsy, And recognise our birthday hymn for thee, Dirgelike, and solemn, as funereal wail; And dissonance be blent with melody: Whose diapason should serene prevail. Oh as the years, love-registered, brought round The happy birthdays, welcomed so by me; My soul, enamoured, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217723725 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217723721 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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