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In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me.
Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.