For she was fair and wise, and every hour In vain she strove to lead my thoughts above, While here I gaze upon her mouldering stone 499. When sculptur'd monuments, adorn'd with rhymes, O then it is we heave an honest sigh, That marble is not immortality! 500. What though they mouldering lie beneath the sod, The dead in Christ shall rise and live with God: If this be true, no Christian need complain If this be false, all other hopes are vain. This world must ever prove a world of woe, Press boldly onward then, through flood and flame, APPROPRIATE TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE. Rev. ii. 10. BE thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Psalm lxxiii. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Rev. xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power. Heb. xi. 13. These all died in faith. Rev. xxi. 4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Gen. iii. 19. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Eccles. viii. 8. There is no discharge in that war. Phil. iii. 21. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Matt. xxiv. 42. Watch, therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. John v. 28, 29. The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. |