SELECTIONS FROM POEMS BY ELLIS BELL. ENCOURAGEMENT. |
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SELECTIONS FROM POEMS BY ELLIS BELL.ENCOURAGEMENT.
I do not weep; I would not weep;
Our mother needs no tears:
Dry thine eyes, too; `tis vain to keep
This causeless grief for years.
What though her brow be changed and cold,
Her sweet eyes closed for ever?
What though the stone--the darksome mould
Our mortal bodies sever?
What though her hand smooth ne`er again
Those silken locks of thine?
Nor, through long hours of future pain,
Her kind face o`er thee shine?
Remember still, she is not dead;
She sees us, sister, now;
Laid, where her angel spirit fled,
`Mid heath and frozen snow.
And from that world of heavenly light
Will she not always bend
To guide us in our lifetime`s night,
And guard us to the end?
Thou knowest she will; and thou mayst mourn
That WE are left below:
But not that she can ne`er return
To share our earthly woe.
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