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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 24.

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MUSINGS

By Simon Patten

The birds have returned and are singing, And flowers are blooming again, And Spring's, putting forth now so lovely, How pleasant 'tis here to remain. And as I thus sit idly musing, My thoughts to futurity turn, To the earth when renewed in its splendor, When glory its face will adorn.
I thought, if at times 'tis so pleasant, Where the curse does so heavily rest, Where friends are so often seen parting, And trouble at times racks the breast, Oh! what will it be when with beauty, The glorified earth will abound, When Jesus and angels attending, Shed glory and pleasure around.
When praise all our hearts will enrapture, And sorrow, no, never, can come, When those whom we love here most dearly, We'll meet there, forever at home. And as I contemplate this glory, And think 'tis not mixed with alloy, How small are earth's vanishing pleasures, How great those the saints will enjoy.
SIMON PATTEN.
Germania, Wis.