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poems by mary baker eddy
MEETING OF MY DEPARTED MOTHER AND HUSBAND
OY for thee, happy friend! thy bark is pastThe dangerous sea, and safely moored at last— Beyond rough foam. Soft gales celestial, in sweet music bore—Spirit emancipate for this far shore— Thee to thy home. "You've traveled long, and far from mortal joys, To Soul's diviner sense, that spurns such toys, Brave wrestler, lone. Now see thy ever-self; Life never fled; Man is not mortal, never of the dead: The dark unknown.
"When hope soared high, and joy was eagle-plumed, Thy pinions drooped; the flesh was weak, and doomed To pass away. But faith triumphant round thy death-couch shed
