• I would not live alway—live alway below!
    Oh no, I ’ll not linger when bidden to go:
    The days of our pilgrimage granted us here
    Are enough for life’s woes, full enough for its cheer:
    Would I shrink from the path which the prophets of God,
    Apostles, and martyrs, so joyfully trod?
    Like a spirit unblest, o’er the earth would I roam,
    While...

  • I Would not live alway—live alway below!
    Oh no, I ’ll not linger when bidden to go:
    The days of our pilgrimage granted us here
    Are enough for life’s woes, full enough for its cheer:
    Would I shrink from the path which the prophets of God,
    Apostles, and martyrs, so joyfully trod?
    Like a spirit unblest, o’er the earth would I roam,
    While...