THE MEETING- PLACE.

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where the hidden wound is healed,

Where the blighted life re- blooms, Where the smitten heart the freshness Of its buoyant youth resumes: Where the love that here we lavish On the withering leaves of time, Shall have fadeless flowers to fix on In an ever spring- bright clime: Where we find the joy of loving, As we never loved before, Loving on, unchilled, unhindered, Loving once and evermore:

Brother, we shall meet and rest ' Mid the holy and the blest!

Where a blasted world shall brighten Underneath a bluer sphere, And a softer, gentler sunshine

Shed its healing splendour here: Where earth's barren vales shall blossom Putting on their robe of green, And a purer, fairer Eden

Be where only wastes have been: Where a King in kingly glory,

Such as earth has never known, Shall assume the righteous sceptre, Claim and wear the holy crown:

Brother, we shall meet and rest ' Mid the holy and the blest.