Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — Longfellow’s View of Death. [ARTICLE]

Longfellow’s View of Death.

Death is neither an end Qor a beginning. It is a transition, nbt from one existence to another, bnt from one state of existence to another. No link is broken in the chain of being, any more than in passing from infancy to manhood, from manhood to old age. * * Death brings us again to our friends. They are waiting for us, and we Shall not long delay. They have gone before us, and are like the angels in heaven. They stand upon the borders of the grave to welcome us, with the countenance of affection which they wore on earth ; yet * more lovely, more radiant, more spiritual. * * * The far country toward which we journey seems nearer to us, and the way less .dark; for thou hast gone before, passing so quietly to thy rest that day itself dies not more calmly. Oh! tbongb oft depressed and lonely, * All my fears are laid aside, i If X but remember only Susb as these here lived end died.