html.skin-theme-clientpref-night @media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os }"E must not doubt, or fear, or dread, that love for life is only given,
"And that the calm and sainted dead will meet estrang'd and cold in Heaven,
"Oh! love were poor and vain indeed, based on so harsh and stern a creed.
"If in my heart I now could fear that, risen again, we should not know
"What was our Life of Life when here—the hearts we loved so much below;
"I would arise this very day, and cast so poor a thing away.
"But Love is no such soulless clod: living, perfected it shall rise
"Transfigured in the light of God, and giving glory to the skies:
"And that which makes this life so sweet, shall render Heaven's joy complete."
A. A. Proctor.