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WHAT IS LIFE?

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 3.

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WHAT IS LIFE?

By D. Hildreth

What is life? a fairy dream Which poor mortals love so well; Rolling tide or flowing stream, Why we love no one can tell.
What is life? a dreary tale, Which is short and quickly told; Still poor man, though weak and frail, Spends his time for worthless gold.
What is life? an evening flower, Which so gaily blooms to-day; Dying in its proudest hour, All its colors fade away,
What is life? a meteor spark, Rising o'er the dusky plain; Briefly glim'ring in the dark, And is seen no more again.
What is life? beyond the tomb Endless will its cycles run, Thousand ages in its bloom, Life is then but just begun. D. HILDRETH, Will Co. Ills.