Shall We Know Each Other by Bishop Mant

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 22, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 21.

Shall We Know Each Other.

By Bishop Mant

AND shall I e'er again thy features trace, Beloved friend; thy lineaments review? Yes: tho the sunken eyes, and livid hue, And lips compressed, have quenched each lively grace, Death's triumph; still I recognize the face Which thine for many a year affection knew: And what forbids, that, clothed with life anew, It still on memory's tablet holds its place?— Tho then thy cheek with deathless bloom be seen, And rays of splendor wreathe thy sun-like brow, That change I deem shall sever not between Thee and thy former self; nor disallow That love's tried eyes discern thee thru the screen Of glory then, as of corruption now. —Bishop Mant.