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48            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy




  	       MEETING OF MY DEPARTED
  	          MOTHER AND HUSBAND 

 1	    JOY for thee, happy friend! thy bark
  	        is past
 3	    The dangerous sea, and safely
  	        moored at last — 
  	                           Beyond rough foam. 
 6	    Soft gales celestial, in sweet music bore — 
  	    Spirit emancipate for this far shore — 
  	                           Thee to thy home. 

 9	    "You've traveled long, and far from mortal
  	        joys,
  	    To Soul's diviner sense, that spurns such toys,
12	                           Brave wrestler, lone. 
  	    Now see thy ever-self; Life never fled;
  	    Man is not mortal, never of the dead:
15	                           The dark unknown. 

  	    "When hope soared high, and joy was eagle-
  	        plumed,
18	    Thy pinions drooped; the flesh was weak,
  	        and doomed
  	                           To pass away. 
21	    But faith triumphant round thy death-couch
  	        shed
 
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 1	    Majestic forms; and radiant glory sped
  	                           The dawning day. 

 3	    "Intensely grand and glorious life's sphere, — 
  	    Beyond the shadow, infinite appear
  	                           Life, Love divine, — 
 6	    Where mortal yearnings come not, sighs
  	        are stilled,
  	    And home and peace and hearts are found
 9	        and filled,
  	                           Thin...e, ever thine. 

  	    "Bearest thou no tidings from our loved on
12	        earth,
  	    The toiler tireless for Truth's new birth
  	                           All-unbeguiled? 
15	    Our joy is gathered from her parting sigh:
  	    This hour looks on her heart with pitying
  	        eye, — 
18	                           What of my child?" 

  	    "When, severed by death's dream, I woke
  	        to Life,
21	    She deemed I died, and could not know the
  	        strife
  	                           At first to fill
24	    That waking with a love that steady turns
 
50            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy



 1	    To God; a hope that ever upward yearns,
  	                           Bowed to His will. 

 3	    "Years had passed o'er thy broken household
  	        band,
  	    When angels beckoned me to this bright land,
 6	                           With thee to meet. 
  	    She that has wept o'er thee, kissed my cold
  	        brow,
 9	    Rears the sad marble to our memory now,
  	                           In lone retreat. 

  	    "By the remembrance of her loyal life,
12	    And parting prayer, I only know my wife,
  	                           Thy child, shall come — 
  	    Where farewells cloud not o'er our ransomed
15	        rest — 
  	    Hither to reap, with all the crowned and blest,
  	                           Of bliss the sum. 

18	    "When Love's rapt sense the heartstrings
  	        gently sweep
  	    With joy divinely fair, the high and deep,
21	                           To call her home,
  	    She shall mount upward unto purer skies;
  	    We shall be waiting, in what glad surprise,
24	                           Our spirits' own!" 
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