THE FUTURE LIFE.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 1

THE FUTURE LIFE.

How Bhill I know thpe in the sphere whioh keopa The d -embodied spirits of the dead, TViioa a'l .f the that tim<* an witner sleeps, Anl pjii-h«3 aiuong tho dast we treaa i 3Tor I shall re >1 tbo sting of coaseks* pain If there I "ieet thy Kentle presence not, Hffor hear the voice I love cor read again la thy Berenest eyes the tender thought. Will not thine own m9ek heart demand me there— That heart whose fondest throba to me were given ? My name ou earth was ever in thy prayer. And wilt thoi nover uttor it in Heaven 1 Tn meadows fanned by Heavens life-breathing wind. In the resplendence of that glorious sphere. And Urger movements of tl c unfettered mind, Wttt thou forget the love that joins us here ? Tho love that liv. d through all the stormy paßt And me^Miy with my harsher t ature bore, And deep *v y rew, and tenderer to the lastShall it expire witn life and be no more? A. napplar lot tban mine and larger light Awa,lt thee there-; for thou hast bowed thy will 1a oheerrul homage to the rule of right. And lovest all and renderest good for ill. For m i the sordid cares in whioh I dwell ShriLk and consume my heart as heat the sc-oll! Ani wra'h hath loft its soar-that fire of hell Has left its frightful Bear upon my soul. Yet though thou wear'st tin glory of tbe sky, *Vilt thou not keep the came beloved namo, "The game tm oth, thougbttul brow and tcentle ey« lovelier in Heaven's sweet climate, yet the same? Bhet't th m not teach me, in that calmer horns, Tho wigiom that I learned su ill in this— Tha wisdom whioh is love— till I become Thy lit companion in that land of blis* ? William Cdllen Bryant.