The Hereafter

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Title:     The Hereafter
Author: James Whitcomb Riley [More Titles by Riley]

Hereafter! O we need not waste
Our smiles or tears, whatever befall:
No happiness but holds a taste
Of something sweeter, after all;--
No depth of agony but feels
Some fragment of abiding trust,--
Whatever death unlocks or seals,
The mute beyond is just.

[The end]
James Whitcomb Riley's poem: Hereafter

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