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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

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LONELINESS,

By Eliza H. Morton

BY ELIZA H. MORTON.
WITHOUT, the storm is raging drear, O homesick heart within! Without, the world is cold and chill, Oh, traces sad of sin!
Alas! man often proves untrue, And frailty dwells below; The beauty that we see in dreams, We waking never know.
The heart oft yearns for human love With longings tender, strong, And finds the aching void unfilled, The way still lonely, long.
The loveliness we might have gleaned Along life’s rugged way, Is past and gone, and bitterness Comes with the fleeting day.
The storm without has spent its power; O heart, why thus so sad? In Gilead, lo! there’s healing balm, And mourners may be glad.
Above, there’s endless joy and bliss, The changeless is to come; “Eternity ne’er sheds its leaves,” O glorious, sun-bright home!
Battle Creek, Mich.