当耶和华看见她的时候,He had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And He came and touched the bier; and they that bare him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.--St. Luke vii. 13, 14. Who says, the wan autumnal soon Beams with too faint a smile To light up nature's face again, And, though the year be on this wane, With thoughts of spring the heart beguile? Waft him, thou soft September breeze, And gently lay him down Within some circling woodland wall, Where bright leaves, reddening ere they fall, Wave gaily o'er the waters brown. And let some graceful arch be there With wreathed mullions proud, With burnished ivy for its screen, And moss, that glows as fresh and green As thought beneath an April cloud. - Who says the widow's heart must break, The childless mother sink? - A kinder truer voice I hear, Which e'en beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more--O heart bereft, How strange, to thee, that sound! A widow o'er her only son, Feeling more bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touched the bier - The bearers wait with wondering eye, The swelling bosom dares not sigh, But all is still, 'twixt hope and fear. E'en such an awful soothing calm We sometimes see alight On Christian mourners, while they wait In silence, by some churchyard gate, Their summons to this holy rite. And such the tones of love, which break The stillness of that hour, Quelling th' embittered spirit's strife - "The Resurrection and the Life Am I: believe, and die no more." Unchanged that voice--and though not yet The dead sit up and speak, Answering its call; we gladlier rest Our darlings on earth's quiet breast, And our hearts feel they must not break. Far better they should sleep awhile Within the Church's shade, Nor wake, until new heaven, new earth, Meet for their new immortal birth For their abiding-place be made, Than wander back to life, and lean On our frail love once more. 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store. Then pass, ye mourners, cheerly on, Through prayer unto the tomb, Still, as ye watch life's falling leaf, Gathering from every loss and grief Hope of new spring and endless home. Then cheerly to your work again With hearts new-braced and set To run, untired, love's blessed race. As meet for those, who face to face Over the grave their Lord have met.