...each. Then echo-like our voices rang; We snng, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us: surely...meet: "They rest," we said, "their sleep is sweet/ Aud silence follow'd, and we wept. Our voices took a higher range; • Once more we sang : " They do...

...rang; We sung, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year : impetuously we sang : We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us: surely...same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil." Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw forth the cheerful day from night...

...We sung, though every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year : impetuously we sang : " We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us : surely...sleep is sweet/ And silence follow'd, and we wept." (2) " My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live forevermore, Else earth is darkness...

...; We sung, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year : impetuously we sang : We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us : surely...same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil.' Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw forth the cheerful day from night...

...the heart, in sweet and chastening memories — "Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sung, ' They do not die, Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change' " — in secret regret for a thousand weaknesses, in secret vows for nobler living, it is still the...

...: We sung, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year : impetuously we sang : We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us : surely...rest is meet : " They rest," we said, " their sleep I* sweet," And silence follow'd, and wo wept. Our voices took a higher range ; Once more wo sang :...

...; We sung, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year : impetuously we sang : We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us : surely...same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil." Rise, happy morn, rise, holy mom, Draw forth the cheerful day from night :...

...assurance of the immortality of the soul, the !, "keen seraphic flame," and encourage each other to hope. " They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor...same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil." The hope offered by the Christian revelation recalls the story .of Lazarus,...

...rang ; We sang, tho' every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him Last year; impetuously we sang. We ceased : a gentler feeling crept Upon us : surely rest is meet. Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang : ' They do not die, Nor lose their mortal sympathy,...

...forced mirth and empty joy. But there is something in the very season that suggests nobler thoughts : Our voices took a higher range ; Once more we sang...sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change. (xxx.) That, at least, is the promise of faith, and with a cry to the Divine Father, who lit " the...