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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
The following verses were takes * nearly thirty years ago , from an bid Magazine . They were there ascribed to the Rev . Mr . Stogden ; but I know not whether the same wich him of whom
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TWfe UNKNOWN WORLD : Verses occasioned by hearing a passingbell . ^ -B y the Rev . Mr . Stogden . " jSut Iwhat is beyond death ? Who sfoajl draw the veil ?" - ' , - . " .: v " ' . ' —— - ¦ - ¦ Hark , my gay friend ! that ~ i solemn toll Speaks the-. departure of a soul ! 'Tis £ one 1 that ' s all we know- ^ -not where , Nor how th * unbodied mind does fare .
in that mysterious world , none knows , But God alone , to whom it goes ; To whom departed souls return To take their doom , to smile or mourn . O ! by what gllmm ' ring li g ht we view The unknown world we ' re hastening to ! God has lock'd up the mystic page , And curtain'd darkness round the stage
Wise heav ' n , to render search perplext , Has drawn , between this world and th * next , A dark , impenetrable screen ; And all beyond is yet unseen . We talk of heav e n , we talk of hell : But , what they mean , no tongue can tell . Heav ' n is the realm where angels are j And hell , the chaos of despair .
But , what these awful words imply , None of U 8 know before we die : Whether we will or no , we must Take the succeeding worlds on trust .
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This hour , perhaps , our friend is well £ Death strikes the next ^ he cries , " Farewell , I die ; ' * and then , for ought we see , Ceases at once to breathe and be .
Thus , launch'd from life's ambiguous shore , Ingulph'd in death , appears no more ; Then , undirected , to repair To distant worlds , we know not where . Swift $ ies the soul ; perhaps ' tis gone A thousand leagues beyond the sun , Or twice ten thousand more thrice toli Ere the forsaken clay be cold .
And yet who knows if friends we lov a , Though dead , may be so far remov'd I Only this veil of flesh between , Perhaps they watch us , though unseen . Whilst we , their loss lamenting , say , " They ' re out of hearing , far away ;" Guardians to us , perhaps , they ' re near , Conceal ' d in vehicles of air .
And yet , no notices they give , Nor tell us where , or how they live i Though conscious , whilst with us below , How much themselves desir'd to know . As if bound up by solemn fate To keep this secret of their state ,... To tell their joys or . pains to none , That man might live by faith alone .
Well , let my sovereign , if he please , Lock up his marvellous decrees ; Why should I wish him to reveal What he thinks proper to conceal ? Tt is enough that I believe , Heav ' n ' s brighter than I can conceive ; And he , who makes it all his care To serve God here , shall see him there *
But O ! what worlds shall I survey , The moment that I leave this clay ! How sudden the surprise ! how new Let it , my God * be happy too !
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you have given- ¦ us so interesting and instructive ah account , or ; not . * If you think tliem Worthy of insertion , they aYe at your service , from Your ^ truly ,, ¦ - ¦ •;¦ - - - " • - . t . ... ' ¦;¦ ¦ "' " *
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* Vol . iv , p . S 7 « Thc namc of thc «« bject of the Memoir is Stogdon , E » .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/43/
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