“Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
I shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
I shall be soon!
Love, rest, and home —
Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!”

—  Horatius Bonar

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.

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