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We meet in joy, though we part in sorrow; / We part to-night, but we meet to-morrow. / Be it flood or blood the path that's trod, / All the same it leads home to God: / Be it furnace-fire voluminous, / One like God's Son will walk with us.
What are these that glow from afar, / These that lean over the golden bar, / Strong as the lion, pure as the dove, / With open arms and hearts of love? / They the blessed ones gone before, / They the blessed forevermore. / Out of great tribulation they went / Home to their home of Heaven-content; / Through flood, or blood, or furnace-fire, / To the rest that fulfils desire.