“Yea, when mortality dissolves,
 Shall I not meet thine hour unawed?
My house eternal in the heavens
 Is lighted by the smile of God!”

—  Alice Cary

"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.

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