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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 20, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 21

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MUSINGS

By Eliza H. Morton

BY ELIZA H. MORTON.
Oh, vain, illusive, fleeting life, The "shadow of a shade"! Oh, yearning hunger of the heart! Oh, flowers that bloom to fade!
Oh, love so fitful, changing, vague, Unsatisfying all! Oh, sorrow, wild and unexpressed! Oh, gloomy funeral pall!
Oh, moments lost and gone for aye! Oh, dreamers here below! Oh, broken spirits bowed to earth With weight of unknown woe!
O worker in the harvest field, Stay not thy busy hand! But toil on till the curse depart From earth's drear, desert land!
Shake off the fear that frets thy soul, Have faith in Christ the Lord; The One that rules the universe Is erring Israel's God.
Arise, and live as ne'er before, There's mercy yet for thee; Thou yet may'st join the victor throng, Upon the crystal sea.
Battle Creek, Mich.