(note i did not write this. I found in amongst a collection of poetry. This poem is one of my favourites, because it says so much about many relationships we have on whatever levels they are. It makes you think!!! and thats important)
Friend after friend departs
who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end
Were this frail world our only rest,
Living or dying, none were blest.
Beyond the flight of time,
Beyond this vale of death,
There surely is some blessed clime
Where life is not a breath
Nor life's affections transient fire
Whose sparks fly upward to expire
There is a world above
Where parting is unknown
A whole eternity of love
Formed for the good alone
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that happier sphere.
Thus star by star declines,
Till all are passed away
As morning high and higher shines
To pure and perfect day
Nor sink those stars in empty night
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
