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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
I saw a stream whose waves were bright
With morning's dazzling sheen;
But gathering clouds, ere fall of night,
Had darken’d o’er the scene:—
“How like that tide,”
My Spirit sighed,
“This life to me hath been.”
The clouds dispers’d:— the glorious West
Was bright with closing day;
And on the river's peaceful breast
Shone forth the sunset ray:—
My Spirit caught
The soothing thought—
Thus life might pass away.
I saw a tree:— with ripening fruit
And shady foliage crown’d;
But ah! an axe was at its root,
And fell’d it to the ground:—
Well might that tree
Recal to me
The doom my hopes had found.
The fire consum’d it:— but I saw
Its smoke ascend on high!
A shadowy type, beheld with awe,
Of that which cannot die,
But, from the grave
Shall rise to crave
A home above the sky.
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