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There's nothing terrible in death;
'Tis but to cast our robes away,
And sleep at night, without a breath
To break repose till dawn of day.

— James Montgomery

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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

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