We shall meet again; original pieces, sacred and miscellaneous, in verse and ...

Stanzas ...

The Best Gift from Heaven

120

Belshazzar and his Favourite ; or the

Fall of Babylon

121

To the Memory of a Young Lady.... 141

Lines written for a commemoration of

Hervey, intended to be kept at

Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,

in the summer of 1833

153

Lines addressed to his Mother by a

The Clay that perisheth...

Lines written to accompany a Picture

of a Mother weeping over a Child,

for whom an Angel is waiting..... 182

What is Death ?

184

Lines suggested by a visit to Richbo-

rough Castle....

185

Reflections on the Death of a Young

Lady, written on the Anniversary

of her Birth-day (Nov. 26) 187

To my Niece, P. H. M.

194

Australian Prospects

195

"We Shall Meet Again”

Consolation on the Death of Christian

Friends

211

The Christian's Life-Boat

213

Concluding Stanzas ..

215

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WE MEET AGAIN.

Introductory Verses,

“WE MEET AGAIN!”-delightful thoughts

When Parting's hour is near,
With sweetest consolation fraught,

To dry the starting tear.
When first to School the urchin goes,

It soothes his grief and pain;
Hope in his boyish bosom glows —

The hope to meet again !

And still that hope, in after life,

This flattering tale will tell; Youth's ardour, Manhood's sterner strife,

Alike confess its spell :

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Nor love, nor fame, nor rank, nor power,

Its influence can disdain ; Vot'ries of each, in Parting's hour

Must wish to meet again.

For Nature has unnumber'd ties,

Entwining heart to heart;
Feelings, affections, sympathies,

Which make it pain to part.
And none, thus link'd unto their kind,

By Being's brightest chain,
But in them bear a wish enshrin'd-

Whisp'ring-" We meet again !”
The World, tis true, has much to mar

The force of this appeal,
Too much that feeling oft must jar,

In hearts which deepest feel ;
But, in despite of worldly care,

Who can at times refrain
To breathe the fond and fervent prayer;-

Oh! may we meet again!

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