AR GRIEF. S the funeral train with its honored dead On its mournful way went sweeping, While a sorrowful nation bowed its head And the whole world joined in weeping, I thought, as I looked on the solemn sight, Of the one fond heart despairing, And I said to myself, as in truth I might, To share the living with even Fame, Is hard, when Glory asserts her claim Yet a great, grand passion can put aside. Or stay each selfish emotion, And watch, with a pleasure that springs from pride, But Death should render to love its own, As she sat in the gloom of her darkened life, He had shed the glory of Love and Fame In a golden halo about her; She had shared his triumphs and worn his name: But now, with a spectral shape at the helm, It was only a thought, that came that day That I knew was right and becoming; With a reverence grand as solemn. TA SPEECH. ALK happiness. The world is sad enough Talk faith. The world is better off without Of silence, all your thoughts till faith shall come. Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale And God shall hear your words and make them true. ILLUSION. OD and I in space alone And nobody else in view. "And where are the people, O! Lord," I said, "That was a dream," God smiled and said, "Why do I feel no fear," I asked, And is there heaven, and is there hell, And is this the judgment day?" "Nay, those were but dreams," the Great God said, "Dreams, that have ceased to be. There are no such things as fear or sin, 2 ASSERTION. AM serenity. Though passions beat I am good health. Though fevers rack my brain A perfect restoration after pain, I know shall be my recompense at length, And so through grievous day and sleepless night "Health, health," I cry, "it is my own by right.' I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, To-morrow, for good fortune comes my way. His wealth is mine, health, happiness and gold.” |