TO ROSE IN HEAVEN
II
You need not fear again
The East Wind and the snows,
Nor dree your weird of pain,
Sickness and dying, Rose.
In God's land summer is,
And health and youth and bliss.
The East Wind and the snows,
Nor dree your weird of pain,
Sickness and dying, Rose.
In God's land summer is,
And health and youth and bliss.
You need not go away,
When going was like death,
For leave to live your day,
For leave to draw your breath.
In God's land where you stray,
Sweet is the summer day.
When going was like death,
For leave to live your day,
For leave to draw your breath.
In God's land where you stray,
Sweet is the summer day.
You need not have for friend
House-mate and bed-fellow,
Pain that had never an end,
And sickness sad and slow;
Or lie the long night through
While life ebbed out from you.
House-mate and bed-fellow,
Pain that had never an end,
And sickness sad and slow;
Or lie the long night through
While life ebbed out from you.
O there is no home-sickness,
Because it is our home;
Nor labour nor distress,
Nor watching wearisome.
You need not fear the snows,
North Wind nor East Wind, Rose!
Because it is our home;
Nor labour nor distress,
Nor watching wearisome.
You need not fear the snows,
North Wind nor East Wind, Rose!
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