For an Arisen Spirit
The clouds have parted and the way is clear.
Go forth, valiant spirit, without fear!
Free from all barriers of mortal pain
You will return again, and yet again
To demonstration, with Truth's untiring breath,
Life's continuity - there is no death!

What I Live For...
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my coming too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story,
who suffered for my sake;
to emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The heroic of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd history's pages
And Time's great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine
to feel there is a union
Twixt nature's heart and mine.
To profit by affliction
Reap truth from fields of fiction
Grown wiser by conviction
And fulfil God's grand design
I live to hail that season
By gifted ones foretold,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by Gold;
When man to man united
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted,
With love and joy untold.
I live for those who love me,
For those know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too.
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future is in the distance
and the good that I can do.