Is It Not Sweet To Think, Hereafter. (Air.--Haydn.)

Is it not sweet to think, hereafter,         When the Spirit leaves this sphere.     Love, with deathless wing, shall waft her         To those she long hath mourned for here?     Hearts from which 'twas death to sever.         Eyes this world can ne'er restore,     There, as warm, as bright as ever,         Shall meet us and be lost no more.     When wearily we wander, asking         Of earth and heaven, where are they,     Beneath whose smile we once lay basking,         Blest and thinking bliss would stay?     Hope still lifts her radiant finger         Pointing to the eternal Home,     Upon whose portal yet they linger,         Looking back for us to come.     Alas, alas--doth Hope deceive us?         Shall friendship--love--shall all those ties     That bind a moment, and then leave us,         Be found again where nothing dies?     Oh, if no other boon were given,         To keep our hearts from wrong and stain,     Who would not try to win a Heaven         Where all we love shall live again?