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Merst in everlasting blessing,—
With the Holy coälescing,—
Ev'ry good in full possessing,—
In eternal glory fair.
Ear hath never known the story.
Eye the scene consolatory,—
Heaven's denizens of glory
By experience know alone.
How, from sorrow liberated
Saints in glory elevated
Are with bliss and honours sated
In the presence of the Son.
But these few things being stated,
Partly touch'd on and narrated,
Which to sinners destinated
And to saints we plainly read,
Take we rede of wisdom's giving.
Choose we holiness of living,
And, while yet on earth, with grieving
Wail our ev'ry evil deed.
Live we not like brute creation,
Lest, when dead, to desolation
We should come, and lamentation,—
God's intolerable ire;
