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FOREVER by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

First Line: THOSE WE LOVE TRULY NEVER DIE
Last Line: THE ANCHOR OF A LOVE IS DEATH.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
Those we love truly never die
Though year by year the sad memorial wreath,
A ring and flowers, types of life and death,
Are laid upon their graves.

For death the pure life saves,
And life all pure is love; and love can reach
From heaven to earth, and nobler lessons teach
Than those by mortals read.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead;
A friend he has whose face will never change—
A dear communion that will not grow strange;
The anchor of a love is death.



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