“O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , book The Seaside and the Fireside

"Hymn, For my Brother's Ordination", The Seaside and the Fireside (1850).

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American poet 1807–1882

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