| NICHOLAS ST. JOHN GREEN.
Died Sept. 8, 1876.
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| I.
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Dear friend! the ancient elegiac strain
For death — was death itself and dark despair;
Each word a sob — the vain lament in vain
Fell on the careless air!
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| II.
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Better our teaching, though they teach as well,
How deathless atoms in eternal flow
Compose the mortal bodies where we dwell,
And all things high and low.
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Can senseless atoms live? forever live?
Aild that which animates them ever die?
Can we — together brought, without our leave,
Then forc'd apart to fly —
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| IV.
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Be worse for immortality? Our loss
Cannot be lasting while He lasts to tell
What glory shines behind His better cross,
Who doeth "all things" well!
Advertiser.George Sennott.
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