The Fringe of Heaven
Now have I left the world and all its tears, And high above the sunny cloud-banks fly, Alone in all this vast and lonely sky - This limpid space in which the myriad spheres Go thundering on, whose song God only hears High in his heavens. Ah! how small seem I, And yet I know he hears my little cry Down there among Mankind's cruel jest and sneers. And I forget the grief which I have known, And I forgive the mockers and their jest, And in this mightly solitude alone, I taste the joys of everlasting rest, Which I shall know when I have passed away To live in Heaven's never-fading day. Written in the Air.
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