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<h2>OH, FOR A HOME OF REST!</h2>
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<p><span class="first_word">Oh</span>, for a home of rest!</p>
<p class="i2">Time lags alone so slow, so wearily;</p>
<p>Couldst thou but smile on me, I should be blest.</p>
<p>Alas, alas! that never more may be.</p>
<p class="i2">Oh, for the sky-lark’s wing to soar to thee!</p>
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<p>This earth I would forsake</p>
<p class="i2">For starry realms whose sky’s forever fair;</p>
<p><em>There</em>, tears are shed not, hearts will cease to ache,</p>
<p>And sorrow’s plaintive voice shall never break</p>
<p class="i2">The heavenly stillness that is reigning there.</p>
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<p>Life’s every charm has fled,</p>
<p class="i2">The world is all a wilderness to me;</p>
<p>“For thou art numbered with the silent dead.”</p>
<p>Oh, how my heart o’er this dark thought has bled!</p>
<p class="i2">How I have longed for wings to follow thee!</p>
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<p>In visions of the night</p>
<p class="i2">With angel smile thou beckon’st me away,</p>
<p>Pointing to worlds where hope is free from blight;</p>
<p>And then a cloud comes o’er that brow of light,</p>
<p class="i2">Seeming to chide me for my long delay.</p>
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<p class="dateline">1829. <span class="author">E. P. K.</span></p>
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