Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440, page 59 by Various Authors
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seem laden with sad, shrieking souls, Borne, all unwilling, From earth's known plains, to the unknown gulf that rolls, Evermore filling.
Fierce wind! will the Death-Angel come like thee, And swiftly bear me-- Whither?--What mysteries may unfold to me? What horrors scare me?
Shall I go wandering on through silent space, Lonely--still lonely? Or seek through myriad spirit-ranks one face, And miss that only?
Shall I not then drop down from sphere to sphere, Palsied and aimless? Or will my being new so changed appear That grief dies nameless?
Rather, I pray Him who Himself is Love, Out of whose essence All pure souls spring, and towards Him tending, move Back to His presence--
His light transfiguring, may not efface The soul's earth-features, That the dear human likeness each may trace-- Glorified creatures:
That we may love each other, only taught Holier desiring; And seek all wisdom, as on earth we sought, Ever aspiring:
That we may do all work we left undone Through frail unmeetness; From sphere to sphere together passing on Towards full completeness.
Then, strong Azrael, be thy solemn call Soft as spring-breezes, Or like this blast, whose loud fiend-festival My heart's pulse freezes--
I will not fear thee!--If thou safely keep My soul, God's giving, And my soul's soul--I, wakening from death's sleep, Shall first know living.
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