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How blest is our sister, bereftOf all that could burden her mind!How easy the soul that has leftThis wearisome body behind;Of evil incapable, thouWhose relics with envy I see,No longer in misery now,No longer a sinner like me. This earth is affected no moreWith sickness, or shaken with pain:The war …

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Rejoice for a brother deceased;Our loss is his infinite gain;A soul out of prison released,And freed from its bodily chain;With songs let us follow his flight,And mount with his spirit above,Escaped to the mansions of light,And lodged in the Eden of love. Our brother the haven hath gained,Out-flying the tempest …

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