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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 22.

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BEREAVEMENT

By H. L. H.

Death’s blight is on earth’s fairest bloom, Death’s taint is in the air; The shroud, the coffin, and the tomb Surround us everywhere.
Earth’s joys like flitting phantoms fly, Earth’s pleasures flee away; The fairest and the dearest die, The loveliest forms decay.
Our smitten souls with sorrow bowed, By stormy tempests driven, Look upward through the rifted cloud To hail the light of heaven.
Beyond the scenes of earthly grief Shines the eternal home; There shall our anguish find relief Where sorrows never come.
—H. L. H., in the Christian.