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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 17.

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True Happiness.

By Sarah A. Nicholes

How vain are the pleasures of earth, How false are their promises fair; Too often they fade at the birth, And the heart is o'erwhelmed in despair.
Like the rose they may bloom for a while, And all may seem joyous and gay; But let storms of adversity rise, And how quickly they wither away.
But oh, there is something that's sure, That adversity sweeps not away; That cheers the lone heart in despair, 'Tis the hope of the heavenly day.
This hope points us yonder for rest, Where pleasures bloom not to decay, Where the heart shall no more be opprest, And sorrow shall vanish away.
O seek there thy treasure, my friend, Since all is so transient below, Seek pleasures that never will end, And pleasures even here shalt thou know.
SARAH A. NICHOLES.
Jamaica, Vt.