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I / If that high world, which lies beyond / Our own, surviving Love endears; / If there the cherished heart be fond, / The eye the same, except in tears- / How welcome those untrodden spheres! / How sweet this very hour to die! / To soar from earth and find all fears / Lost in thy light-Eternity!
II / It must be so: 'tis not for self / That we so tremble on the brink; / And striving to o'erleap the gulf, / Yet cling to Being's severing link. / Oh! in that future let us think / To hold each heart the heart that shares, / With them the immortal waters drink, / And soul in soul grow deathless theirs!