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if on wings into the higher life,
the real life.
The chariot of fire that translated
the prophet of old, was a symbol
of this purification.
Here we live, as it were in shadow
and "passing away", is the
requiem Earth always gives,
but my loved friend, we
are passing upward into the
life everlasting.
Yet there is one great joy in
this world, one transcendent
blessing, the real presence,
I pray God, for this healing for
you, and that you may
fully and really meet
your dear departed ones,
in the fulness of this
wonderful communion of
Saints, where loneliness is soothe[d]