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 * How beyond this life of toil and care

They shall lead a life of endless glory:
 * Where beyond the dim
 * Earth-mists Seraphim,
 * Love-illumined, wait—
 * Hierarchies of angels at heaven's gate.


 * Let them suffer while they live below.

Bear in silence weariness and pain;
 * For the heavier is their earthly woe,

Verily the heavenlier is their gain
 * In the mansions where
 * Sorrow and despair,
 * Yea, all moan shall cease
 * With the moan of immemorial seas.


 * And to save their threatened souls from sin.

Save them from the world, the flesh, the devil,
 * Men and Women break from bonds of kin

And in cloistered cell draw bar on evil,