WHEN I SHALL RISE.
When I shi\ll rise, a,n(l~ full of manj fears, Set forth upon my last long journey, loue, ■ And leave behind the circling- earth to go Amongst th^'countless stars' to seek God's throne. . : ' When in the vopourish blue I wander, lost, : Let some fair Paradise rowatd my eyesHill after hill; and green and tsunny vale, As I have beniathiithe Irish ■ • skies. ' i So on the, far horizon I shall seo No alien' laud but .this I hold so dear— Killiney's silver sands, and Wieklow hills, Dawn on iiiy< frightened oyw. as I drow ■ t And if Oh, ]et(jn^si , a'n«r«{&inl; Sr<«eraphim Wait there .tb';le'iidi"\lp to th*i ; Judgment seat;;-,; . i My tinu'd.'soql with-.weeping eyes and 1 ■ dim." ;.- But let thim-jomi;' those dear and lovely ghosts,. - • • In all their human guiso and lustihood, To stand upon that shore .and call m« homo: . V Waving their joyful hand? as once thoy stood— -. \, As once they- stood.. - By Dora Sigerson Shorter,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 4
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159WHEN I SHALL RISE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 4
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