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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 20, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 34.

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Glimpses

By H. I. MORSE-FARNUM

H. I. MORSE-FARNUM
O BRIGHT the mansions building Beyond the “dome”! Betimes appears the gilding Of that far home.
A hint of the gay adornings And gates empearled, These dewy, gorgeous mornings Give to the world.
Shyly the blushes of flowers And sheen of leaves, Are telling of unseen bowers No blighting grieves.
In gurgling brook and fountain, And forest grand, From plain and towering mountain And valley land,
Rise faintly echoes, surging With foretaste sweet Of loveliness, bright glowing, And life complete.
See, in the ponderous river Another rise Beneath the throne forever, In paradise!
This life is full with lessons set On every hand; Repeated oft; can we forget The fatherland?
Forget? while earthen vessels break? Earth beauties die? While for Christ’s name and mercy’s sake Beyond the sky
Homes are in waiting for the few, In every clime, Who faithful prove, and always true Through trial-time?
How brief the testing time— Mortality! But long that “sun-bright clime”— Eternity!
Peterboro, Ontario.