Heaven And Earth.

Turn from the grave, turn from the grave,     There's fearful mystery there;     Descend not to the shadowy tomb,     If thou wouldst shun despair.     It tells a tale of severed ties     To break the bleeding heart,     And from the "canopy of dust"     Would make it death to part.     Oh! lift the eye of faith to worlds     Where death shall never come,     And there behold "the pure in heart"     Whom God has gathered home,     Beyond the changing things of time,     Beyond the reach of care.     How sweet to view the ransomed ones     In dazzling glory there!     They seem to whisper to the loved     Who smoothed their path below,     "Weep not for us, our tears have all     Forever ceased to flow."     Take from the grave, take from the grave,     Those bright, but withering; flowers,     The spirit that had loved them once     Is now in fadeless bowers;     Undying is the fragrance there,     Eternal is the bloom;     But the next breeze may waft away     This perishing perfume.     One fearful stamp, "Doomed to decay,"     Marks all the joys of earth;     Oh! what a resting-place for souls     Of an immortal birth!     Then linger round the grave no more,     Lift, lift the eye to Heaven,     Till hues of faith shall gild the gloom,     And every sigh's forgiven.     Then, when the golden harvest's done,     The path of duty trod,     Thou with the loved may'st garnered be,     And gathered home to God.