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“AND THERE WAS A GREAT
CALM”
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AS
the green waves bear on their crest
The
foam, and ever shoreward come,
So,
moving surely to our rest,
Slowly
we all like bits of foam
Come drifting home.
He
whom we loved has reached the shore
In peace; and all the billows vast—
The
stormy waves of life that bore
Him
on—have ceased their strife at last.
The storm is past!
We
thought, because the waves of life
Were
high and rough, the end would be
‘Mid
scenes of tumult and of strife,
As mighty billows of the
sea
Break loud and free.
But
there was calm instead ! The waves
Of
life were stilled, and up the strand
Slipped
noiselessly, as ocean laves
In
quietness the silver sand,
An ending grand!
How
sweet to know his weary life
At
last to rest and quiet wore!
Oh, may
we all, through peace or strife,
Be gathered on that silver
shore
For evermore!
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