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Yea, so possest with that best hope were they, That if the heavens had opened overhead, And the Archangel with his trump that day To judgement had convoked the quick and dead, They would have heard the summons not with dread But in the joy of faith that knows no fear: Come Lord! come quickly! would this pair have said, And thou O Queen of men and Angels dear, Lift us whom thou hast loved into thy happy sphere!

They wept not at the grave, tho' overwrought With feelings there as if the heart would break. Some haply might have deem'd they suffered not; Yet they who look'd upon that Maiden meek Might see what deep emotion blanched her cheek. An inward light there was which fill'd her eyes, And told, more forcibly than words could speak, That this disruption of her earliest ties Had shaken mind and frame in all their faculties.