So brake the soul, as newly re-arisen 
Beyond the years. 
 
Far above Space and Time, that earth environ 
With bands and bars we strive against in vain, 
Far o’er the world, and all its triple iron 
And brazen chain, 
 
Far from the change that men call life fled higher 
Into the world immutable of sleep, 
We see our loved one, and vain eyes desire 
In vain to weep. 
 
Woeful our gaze, if on Ione Earth descendent, 
To view the absence of yon flame afar— 
Yet in the Heavens, anew, divine, resplendent, 
Behold a star ! 
 
One light the less, that steady flamed and even 
Amid the dusk of Earth’s uncertain shore ; 
One light the less, but in Jehovah’s Heaven 
One star the more ! 
 
 
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