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  | source title = London Spiritualist
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  | source details = No. 343, March 21, 1879, p. 140
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{{Style P-Poem|poem={{Style S-Small capitals|I sat}} by the gloom of a waning fire,
And thought of the dear ones gone;
Of the fond and treasured loves of my youth
Who had left me cold and alone!
 
I remembered the time when I wandered abroad
Amid mountains, rivers, and streams,
When my love was with me, my spring-tide love,
Whose memory lives in my dreams.
 
I thought of the time when the summer flings
Its odours of choicest flowers
To the subtle air, and the soft breeze wings
Their perfumes to fairy bowers.
 
And memory flew to that sunny home,
Bright as the heavens above,
Where the verdant bloom of my heart was all
Aglow with my summer love!
 
Then my spirit recalled that autumn time
When the blossoms that fell at my feet
Lay withering, like that cherished heart
I had fondly loved to greet I
 
I thought of the time when a fair-haired girl
Looked up to my face and smiled;
And I said, in my heart of hearts, “There is none
So lovely as thee, my child!”
 
My soul was a gloom! and in sadness I said
The love of my spring-tide has perished,
And the summer blossom, that, too, is dead,
Which my heart had so dearly cherished.
 
And the autumn time, with its waning sun,
Brings only despair and dread;
Nor memory drear brings back the time
When my fair-haired girl lay dead!
 
I remembered those eyes of violet hue,
And the long, dark lashes there;
The loving kiss and the gentle voice
Of that dear one, so passing fair!
 
And of all the loves that my spirit yearned
And longed to embrace, as of yore,
Was the soul of my soul, that gentle girl
Who had left me for evermore!
 
And my lone heart said, “Is life a sham?
Is my spirit condemned to roam
For ''ever, ''unloving and unloved,
Or ''is ''there a spirit home?”
 
Then I listened, and heard a voice of old;
And in strains so sweet, so dear,
It whispered me, “Darling, I am not dead,
I am with you, ''even here.”''
 
“O, mother mine, ''death ''is not known
By us, in these lovely bowers.
I am waiting for thee amid verdant groves
Of bright gems and rarest flowers.
 
“Thon hasten thee, darling, hasten to me,
The refrain of my soul has flown
Aloft to the angels, who speed their wings
To the mighty Spirit’s throne.
 
“They will bear thee up from the troubled earth
To the summer-land above.
To the spirit-home, where is waiting for thee
Thy other soul, thy Love!”
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