“Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!”
Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) editor
After-song (1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”
The Golden Legend, Pt. V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne.
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