Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems

Blessed Death! thou op'st the door
To the Grand Forevermore!
Unto thee the task is given
To unbar the gates of Heaven!
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I
I know that I shall die;
But wherefore should I sigh?
Did sighing e'er abate
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'Swing up the traitor!' Let him die!
Truth, honor and sincerity
Are treason to Virginia's laws,
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Flattery, fair but false, retire!
Off, incorrigible liar,
With thy tongue and pen of fire!
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Drifting on Life's stormy sea,
Tossed by raging wind and wave,
Jesus, me from shipwreck save,
Dearest Lord, my pilot be.
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Hark to what the angels say!
Watch and pray
While you may,
Work alway,
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One thought, all other thoughts above,
Shall guide me wheresoe'er I rove,
Shall all my soul's devotion move,
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Do they not greatly err, who hold
That He who made the human soul
Will not its destinies control
For final good, but, wrathful, fold
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God speed the happy time
When fear and hate and crime
Shall flee away:
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Jesus, give me of Thy spirit,
Make me meek and mild like Thee;
Let me all Thy grace inherit,
All Thy love and purity!
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