XII.

William Cullen Bryant

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Edmund Hamilton Sears

And Other Unitarian Hymn Writers

Life! we've been long together,

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
T's hard to part when friends are dear;

Perhaps twill cost a sigh, a tear:

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not "Good Night." but in some brighter clime
Bid me "Good Morning."

ANNIE LAETITIA BARBAULD.

So live that when thy summons comes to join

The innumerable caravan that moves

To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,

Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night,

Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Lord, let War's tempest cease,
Fold the whole Earth in peace
Under Thy wings;

Make all Thy nations one,
All hearts beneath the sun,
Till Thou shalt reign alone,
Great King of kings.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.