HEAVEN BRIGHTER THAN EARTH. Those skies no night that wear Friendship is there the guest Nor cloud nor tempest know Of chilling doubt no more Those flowers no blight that bear And Love with thornless breast Those streams that stainless flow Whose Pangs and fears are o’er Are they not brighter far There is no farewell sigh Than all that lures us here Throughout that blessed clime Where storms may fright each timid star No murmuring voice nor severed tie From midnights lonely sphere. No change of weary time Here Hope of Sorrow drinks Why plant the Cypress near Here fades with care The Pillow of the Just And Virtue from Temptation shrinks Why dew with murmuring Tear And folly finds Despair Thier calm and holy dus[t] But mid that world above Rear there the roses Pride No baneful step may stray Bid the green myrtle bloom The white winged seraphs glance of love Pic[k] emblems of their joys who bide Would melt each ill away. Beyond the insateate tomb. Mid that celestial Place Our searing thoughts would glow E’en while we run this Pilgrim race Of Weariness and Woe. For who would shrink from death With sharp and icy hand Or heed the paths of ------- while breath To win the glorious land.