AFTERWARD.
0 strange, 0 sad perplexity, Blind grouping through the night, Faith faintly questions can there be An afterward of light? O heavy sorrow, grief and fears, That all our hopes destroy ; Say, shall there dawn in coming years An afterward of joy? O hope that turn to gall and rue, Sweet fruits that bitter prove ; Is there an afterward of true And everlasting love? 0 weariness !— within, without ; Vain longing for release. Is there to inward fear and doubt An afterward of peace ? 0 rostless wanderers to and fro, In vain and fruitless quest : Where shall wo find above, below, An afterwards of rest? 0 death, with whom we plead in vain To stay thy fatal knife ; Is there beyond the reach of pain An afterward of life? Ah, yes : wo know this seeming ill, When rightly understood, In God's own time and way fulfill His afterward of good. ■
—Chambers' Jownal,
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 February 1884, Page 4
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152AFTERWARD. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 February 1884, Page 4
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