They Tell of Happy Bowers

Where rainbow-tinted flowers
Bloom bright with sweetest fragrance, and never, never die;

Where friends are joined forever,

Where parting hours come never,
And that that happier land is far beyond the sky;—

That when this life is ended

The spirit there ascended
Shall meet in happy unison the spirits gone before;

And all that here hath vexed us,

With seeming ill perplexed us,
We shall see was for the best, and God of all adore.

Then, brother, hope and cheer thee,

For glorious hours are near thee,
If thou but livest holy, and hope, and trust, and wait;

Soon, trials all departed,

Thou, heavenward, homeward started,
Shalt find a glorious entrance at heaven’s golden gate.