Jane Caroline Reed's Copy Book-Excerpts from Resignation by Longfellow

 

Jane Caroline Reed and David Wright

Excerpts from Resignation

There is no Death! What seems so is transition;

    This life of mortal breath

Is but a suburb of the life elysian,

    Whose portal we call death.

And though at times impetuous with emotion

    And anguish long suppressed,

The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean,

    That cannot be at rest,--

We will be patient, and assuage the feeling

    We may not wholly stay;

By silence sanctifying, not concealing,

    The grief that must have way.

                                                            Longfellow